For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Snehashish Das Ambedkarite Questions to the Neeraj Ghaywan directed episode ‘The Heart Skipped A Beat’ in Made in Heaven Although there are indeed the portraits of Buddha and Babasaheb portrayed in the Neeraj Ghaywan-directed episode ‘The Heart Skipped a Beat’ in the 2nd season of Made in Heaven, we must examine what is really Ambedkarite …
Vikas Parasram Meshram Much has been written on the split decision of the Constitution Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court upholding reservation for economically weaker sections; therefore, it is unnecessary to repeat it. Only one point needs to be highlighted: there was no disagreement in the constitution bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court regarding economic …
Vinay Damodar and Rajesh Chandra Kumar A lot of opinions have already come to the public domain on the recent Supreme Court Judgement on reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections i.e. 103rd Constitutional Amendment. We have not focused deeply on EWS specifically in this article, but tried to look at some consequences of this verdict …
Ankush Uttam Helode Gail Omvedt has described it as the ‘Problem of Entry’. What she means by ‘Problem of Entry’ is basically ‘getting jobs and getting land’ in the case of the workers and the peasants, respectively [Omvedt 1994]. It was this that concerned Dr. B.R. Ambedkar more than anything else. Consequently, he showed the …
Dr Santhosh J. The Supreme Court’s verdict on the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment or the 10% quota for the ‘poor’ among the so-called upper castes, instead of answering questions, raises many more further questions. The 3:2 majority verdict, at its core, fails to logically explain how the policy, which is individual centric and …
Sumeet Samos In the early 1990s, at the peak of Ram Janma Bhoomi movement and decline of Congress in various states, a new brand of politics from among the Backward Classes and Dalits took the centre stage which we interchangeably refer to as Mandal or social justice politics. This brand was not a homogenous group …
Santhosh J The controversial EWS quota for the savarna people is not true to the Constitutional spirit. The constitution guarantees justice to the socially discriminated groups and to ensure their adequate representation in the administration and educational institutions so that they can be made part of social life of the country by providing reservations to …
Bobby Kunhu I was approached on behalf of a Dalit woman friend who is planning to contest the upcoming local body elections in Tamil Nadu from a general constituency and was being misled that a) a reserved category person cannot contest from a general constituency and b) that if she does contest from a general …
Shy of inquiry into privilege, social media posts flaunt antiquated attitudes to caste, reservations Rahi Gaikwad We are all to some extent the prisoners of our upbringing.-PD James (Death in Holy Orders) If anyone has any doubts about how the virus of caste has mutated into a 21st century variant in the minds of upper …