For An Informed Ambedkar Age
SIO JNU The JNUSU elections of this year is important not only because it is under a tyrannical regime in the centre we are in, but it is also a time when large forms of resistance movements are getting strengthened across the country. The key speciality of these movements is that it is not …
Prof Mahesh Chandra Guru ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡಳಿತ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಶ್ರೀ ನರೇಂದ್ರಮೋದಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಭಾರತದ ಶೋಷಿತರ ಪಾಲಿಗೆ ನರಕದ ಕೂಪವಾಗಿದೆ. 2014ರಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಬಿಹಾರ, ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶ, ರಾಜಸ್ಥಾನ, ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಬಹುಜನ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಯುಪಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ನಿಷ್ಕ್ರಿಯತೆಯಿಂದ ಬೇಸತ್ತು ಹೊಸ ಭರವಸೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟಕ್ಕೆ ಅತ್ಯಧಿಕ ಬಹುಮತವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದರು. ಆದರೆ ಬಹುಜನರ ಆಹಾರ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಬದುಕುವ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕ ಸಂಘದ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನದಲ್ಲಿ …
Lalit Kumar On July 24, 2016, the news of an attack on peacefully demonstrating dalits of ‘Youth for Buddhist India’ by some ‘Singh Sena’ activists, or should one call them goons of upper strata of orthodox Hindu society, was reported on some sites such as National Dastak and Round Table India. But it was …
Dharmaraj Kumar “What has happened to dalits? Why have they become so violent? They are getting reservation through constitution in everything, what else do they want now?” was the concern of one of my friends. I had nothing to say in reply as it would have amounted to a provoked answer given in haste. To …
Gurinder Azad Dalits of Gujarat have set an example by replying in their own assertive way to the brutality done on four dalit youth who were carrying a dead cow. They have denounced their ‘traditional’ occupation as a revolt against the Brahminical system. A march has been organised from Ahmedabad to Una where the …
Dhrubo Jyoti I work with a major mainstream media house in the national capital, one that has hundreds of employees but no diversity policy, that ensures almost all journalists are drawn from urban, dominant-caste backgrounds. This is an irritant on most days but the effect of this on reportage has been particularly galling during …
Jyotsna Siddharth When Dalits are beaten up mercilessly with an iron rod in broad daylight, it shakes but doesn’t break us. When an 11-year-old Dalit girl is gang raped repeatedly by the same men, it doesn’t question our morale; it disturbs us, but doesn’t leave us sleepless at night. What do we do? And …
Dr. Narendra Kumar Arya The semantic adulation frequently terminates in clichés. ‘Divyanga’ is a new divine revelation that has happened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is not just coincidence that Narendra Modi is from Gujarat, resembling his Hindu predecessor Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi was a conservative sanatanist, a Hindu first and a political …
Bhante Sugato (Deepak Dhammadarshi) In this short autobiographical essay, I will attempt to give an honest depiction of my life as an Untouchable. The first half of this essay will be an account of my life growing up as an Untouchable. The later half of the essay shall focus on the impact Buddhism had …