For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Manoj Bag On April 14, people celebrated Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti across the country. Just three days before Ambedkar Jayanti, on April 11, many of those people celebrated Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jayanti in many of the villages in Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, etc. These two days were also celebrated by many students’ organisations in academic institutions …
Jyoti Nisha My name is Jyoti Nisha. I am a 36-year-old Bahujan woman from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, making a feature-length documentary film about Babasaheb Ambedkar since the last two and a half years. The film is titled as, ‘B. R. Ambedkar Now and Then’ and is in the post-production stage right now. For …
Mangesh Dahiwale Raju Kamble breathed his last at 2.10 am in Vancouver, Canada. His death is a great loss to the Ambedkarite movement. When the international reach of Ambedkarites was limited only to a few immigrants from Punjab to the western hemisphere, it was Raju Bhau, as we fondly called him, who spanned North …
Kumarjeet Ray NALSAR University of Law is often thought to be the second best law school in India. Every year it admits 120 students from different backgrounds in its LLB course while it admits 60 students for its LLM course. As every government educational institute, there exists a caste based reservation for admission in …
तेजस हरड (Tejas Harad) १४ एप्रिल म्हणजे महामानव भारतरत्न डॉक्टर बाबासाहेब भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर यांची जयंती. आम्ही जिकडे राहतो त्या ठिकाणी अनेक शाळकरी मुले आहेत ज्यांचा आमच्या घरात सतत राबता असतो. मी जयंतीनिमित्त मुलांना सोबत घेऊन बाबासाहेबांच्या आयुष्यावर एक छोटेखानी नाटक बसवावं असा विचार केला होता पण ऑफिसच्या गडबडीत ते जमलं नाही. पण जयंतीच्या …
Tejaswini Tabhane When Ambedkar asked us to ‘fight against Hindu Raj’ he was not aware that one day the same propagandists of Hindu Raj will start (mis)appropriating his ideals. The fashion of saffronising Ambedkar has gained a new pace ever since the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government came to power in 2014. …
डाॅ मनीषा बांगरडॉ. जे डी चन्द्रपाल जब तक साँस चलती रहती है तब तक जीवन चलता रहता है; मगर जब साँस रूक जाती है तो जीवन समाप्त हो जाता है | मगर क्या किसी महान व्यक्ति का जीवन उनकी साँस रूकने पर थम जाता है ? ऐसा कहा जाता है की किसी व्यकित की …
Rahi Gaikwad Part II of the series continued from here Washim/Hingoli. The local provision store turns them away. The flour mill refuses to grind their grain. The village well becomes a no-go zone. Barred from farm work their daily wages stop. And a boycott begins. A number of Dalits in several villages in Washim …
Rahi Gaikwad It may seem that Dr. Ambedkar is the flavour of the season. His 125th anniversary has been observed widely and reams have been written about him. The BJP has embarked on its own agenda of aggressively staking claim to this legacy. The tragic death of Rohith Vemula has galvanised debate around caste. However, …