For An Informed Ambedkar Age
The Blue Club After a resounding success last year, The Blue Club Media Fellowship launched again in 2022 on the 24th of April. This unique three-month national Fellowship program is open exclusively for Dalit women and queer persons interested in improving their writing, editorial, and publishing skills. Fellows will also receive a stipend of Rs …
Bobby Kunhu In the street where my parent’s home is in the middle of Salem city, adjacent to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s permanent residence, most local residents don’t allow Dalit domestic workers inside the house – the kitchen is, of course, a no-go area – and there are separate vessels to serve these …
Prachi Patil Speech made at the protest organised by United OBC Forum and BAPSA on 9th June, 2016 against the discriminatory Anti-OBC Reservation circular of UGC/MHRD which denies OBC reservations in Faculty Recruitments and Promotions. Jai Bhim Friends, I will only take a few minutes of your time. Speakers before me have placed their …
Manisha Mashaal Today, when I see myself as a national leader fighting a battle against caste tyranny, when I speak about changing the oppressive system, when I’m completely engaged with the reality of the ground level, there is only one thing that my heart screams for, that is justice! Whatever happens now, we must …
Investigative report by Rupesh Kumar, first published on 24th August 2016 in Narada News. Translated from Malayalam by Navami TS. The lustre of the centenary celebrations of Sree Narayana Guru’s proclamation ‘we do not have caste’ in hypocritical Kerala has been turned into a comic scene by the corrupted smog of the brutal casteist …
Yogesh Maitreya Latur is one of the districts in the state of Maharashtra. Not many of us know about it. Some of us may know it and that too for the destructive earthquake that took place there in the year of 1993 in which almost 30,000 people had died. Latur is far away from …
Rupesh Kumar Chithralekha has been on strike for the last 100 days seeking justice for the attacks on her by CPM goons. The government and district authorities remain silent on Chithralekha’s vociferous questioning and demand for justice. From October 25th, 2014, Chithralekha and her husband Sreeshkant are sitting in protest in front of the …
Chithralekha Punaradhivasa Committee Kannur 2 Since 25th October 2014, for the last 77 days1, Chithralekha and her family have been on a constant day-and-night strike in front of the Kannur collectorate for her right to work and earn her livelihood, and demanding that social justice be dispensed. This legitimate strike has garnered the support …
Sanjana Krishnan The anger and frustration of living in a time and space where decency and morality are constructs decided by privileges of caste and class… India, as a country is at a certain juncture in history where there is absolute confusion about ideals of morality, decency, justice, respect, rights, shame and stigma. While …