For An Informed Ambedkar Age
டி. அருள் எழிலன் (T Arul Ezhilan) “உன் இனத்தவனிடமிருந்து வட்டி வாங்காதே. பணத்துக்காகவோ, தானியத்துக்காகவோ கடனாகக் கொடுத்த எந்த பொருளுக்காகவோ வட்டி வாங்காதே. வேற்று இனத்தவனிடமிருந்து நீ வட்டி வாங்கலாம். ஆனால், நீ உடைமையாக்கிக் கொள்ளப்போகும் நாட்டில், நீ மேற்கொள்ளும் செயல்களில் எல்லாம், உன் கடவுளாகிய ஆண்டவர் உனக்கு ஆசி வழங்கும் பொருட்டு உன் இனத்தானிடம் வட்டி வாங்காதே” என்கிறது திருவிவிலியத்தின் பழைய ஏற்பாடு. தனிச்சொத்து துவங்கிய காலம் தொட்டு வட்டிமுறையும் …
Vidya “मुलगा पहायला आला” मुलगा पाहायला येतो तेव्हा मुलीला काय वाटत असेल? आज मला मुलगा पाहायला आलेला. मुलगा पाहायला येणं म्हणजे नेमकं काय? जेव्हा मुलगी “वयात येते”, म्हणजे कि ती प्रेम किंवा मुलांशी मैत्री वगैरे करायला लहान असते मात्र लग्न करून संसार करायला समर्थ असते, तेव्हा तिचा बाप (किंवा घरचा करता पुरुष,..हो फक्त पुरुषच ..कारण हा …
N A M Ismail It was my belief that similar to tigers, leopards, cats, dogs and wolves the majority of human beings were meat eaters. This had given me an extraordinary confidence that I could eat anything, that flies, except aeroplanes; that has four legs, except chairs and stools; that has two legs except humans; …
Arvind Boudhh (Some notes from his Facebook wall over the years) Confession #14 (first caste atrocity as a child) It was the time when I used to play cricket. I was about 6 years old and we were playing cricket with a plastic ball and a wooden plank as improvised bat. India being a …
Atul Anand New Delhi. On Monday, February 29, the National President of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Member of Parliament and ex-Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati had a meeting with the grieving family of the scholar Rohith Vemula. A press release in Hindi was issued in this regard by the Central Office of BSP, New Delhi. …
Sinthujan Varatharajah When I wrote my piece for Round Table India, “Politicising the personal: Who am I, Who are ‘we’ as people?”, I wasn’t really sure what the repercussions will be of coming out as an inter-caste/Dalit to the outside. Of course I expected personal attacks and libel, which indeed followed in all predictable …
Drishadwati Bargi “They had the power to make us see and experience ourselves as “other”” ~ bell hooks, Black Looks: Race And Representation. Narrative one: I have known a Dalit man for the past twenty four years of my existence. Like many other first generation beneficiaries of affirmative action policy, he has worked and done well …
Sinthujan Varatharajah He sat down in the crammed living room of a flat in a low-income suburb in Toronto, Canada. Every weekend he would travel to the other end of the city to enter the 12th floor of a high rise complex in the immigrant area. He would arrive at 11 AM and sit …