For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dalit, Adivasi and Bahujan Struggle in campuses and emerging BAPSA as a political alternative in JNU: Special reference to Rahul Punaram Sonpimple Joy Prafful Lakra Mr. Mahadev Toppo, a noted Adivasi writer has said that Adivasis have to take up ‘कलम, कूची और कैमरा’ (Pen, Paint Brush and Camera) to express themselves and extend …
ଯୋଗାନନ୍ଦ କୁମ୍ଭାର (Yogananda Kumbhar) ଗୁମୁଡୁମାହ ହତ୍ୟାକାଣ୍ଡ ରାଜ୍ୟ ନିୟୋଜିତ ଆତଂକବାଦଇତିହାସ ରେ ଆଉ ଏକ କଳଙ୍କ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ ସୃଷ୍ଟି କରିଛିା ପୋଲିସ୍ ପ୍ରଶାସନ ଦ୍ବାରା ଘଟାଯାଉଥିଵାନରସଂହାର ଓଡିଶା ରାଜ୍ୟ ପାଇଁ କିଛି ନୁଆ ନୁହେଁ, ଏହାର ଇତିହାସ ବହୁ ପୁରୁଣା ଏବଂ ଲମ୍ବା ଅଟୋ କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି ର ଜଗସାଇପାଟନା, କନ୍ଧମାଳର ମାଦାଗୁଡା, ଯାଜପୁର ର କଳିଙ୍ଗନଗର ଇତ୍ୟାଦିର ବିଭତ୍ସ ହତ୍ୟାକାଣ୍ଡ ଚର୍ଚିତ କୁଖ୍ୟାତ ଘଟଣାବଳି ପୁଲିସ-ପ୍ରସାଶନ ର ପାରିବା ପଣିଆର ନଗ୍ନ ନିଦର୍ଶନ ଅଟୋ …
Rajesh Chandra Kumar “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” ~ Nelson Mandela. “For want of education their intellect deteriorated, for want of intellect their morality decayed, for want of morality their progress stopped, for want of progress their wealth vanished. All their sorrows sprang from illiteracy”. ~ Mahatma Jotiba …
Jadumani Mahanand I was born in a hill area of Kandhamal. In a small hamlet in a remote region surrounded by mountains, where there are no basic facilities which a modern state promises to ensure its citizens. There is no electricity, no proper road communication, no school to get education, no adequate work for wages …
Murali Ramathoti The essence of Chintu Kumari’s response, that “The left and the Ambedkarite movements need Debate and Unity”, is to say that CPIML Liberation’s (henceforth Liberation) struggle focuses not only on economic lines but on social lines too, i.e. on caste, feudal pride, women’s degradation etc. To justify her argument she narrated the …
Georgy Kuruvila Roy It seems like the dust has settled upon the Modi’s Somalia remarks. But still an uneasy feeling continues to haunt us. It is as if something is still rotting after the competition is over and the winner was pronounced. The smell seems so strong that one is forced to look for …
Rough translation of Rahul Sonpimple‘s (BAPSA, JNU) powerful speech outside SSS1, JNU on 10th May, on the hypocrisy of JNU left during the Academic Council Meeting, undermining the issues of social justice – like OBC relaxation and reduction of Viva voce – for the HLEC (high Level Enquiry Committee set up to probe the events of …
Narayanan M Sankaran (Translated from Malayalam by Joseph Antony) ‘Onam is the National festival of Malayalis’. It is a sentence one learns or is rather made to learn to write and speak from school days onwards. During my childhood, and for many years after that, Onam stood for exciting times for the sole reason …
Daisy Katta An interview with Dr. Sujata Vishwasrao Athawale, Professor and Dalit Activist, Amravati, Vidarbha, Maharashtra. Dr. Sujata Vishwasrao Athawale is a Dalit women’s rights activist who has been working with rural Vidarbha’s Dalit, Adivasi, Nomadic and Denotified Tribal and Muslim women for the last two decades. On the occasion of International Woman’s Day, …