For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Twish Mukherjee (This guest article tries to understand the protests by Bahujan students in JNU and other universities over Durga Puja and the demonizing of Mahisha and other Dalitbahujan personalities in Brahmanic mythology. These protests picked up steam around a year ago in JNU, and this article in Round Table India had covered the protests …
Protest against Caste Discrimination in Educational Institutions in New Delhi on 11:30 am, 19th October, 2012 (Friday), at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi The Commission [NCSC] should initiate Legal action, including the suspension from job, permissible under the law, including the prevention of Atrocities Against the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,1989, against Dr. V.K. Sharma ,former Principal …
Condemn JNU Administration’s Crackdown on Anoop, Anand, Abhay, Kusum Appeal to all progressive forces to unite for the fight against draconian laws that curb the democratic space & freedom to choice of food. Expose the Brahmanical ‘egoism’ and superiority complex of DSU. The New Materialists Expose the JNU Administration, Judiciary, Media and RSS nexus We …
Continued from here. Ravi Chandran As we saw earlier, beef was made an issue associated with only Muslims. Read the constituent assembly debate on banning cow slaughter– Seth Govind Das in his speech he says: …The Muslims should come forward to make it clear that their religion does not compulsorily enjoin on them the …
[The ‘Committee for Democratic Right to Choice of Food’ (CDRCF) on the restraints imposed on the Beef and Pork festival in JNU and the crackdown by the administration on the students– Round Table India] CDRCF Friends, we condemn the crackdown by the JNU Administration on students who voiced their opinion for the availability of food …
Ravi Chandran When its udders were squeezed and milked You didn’t feel any pain at all When it was stitched into a chappal you stamped underfoot and walked You didn’t feel hurt at all When it rang as a drum at your marriage and your funeral You didn’t suffer any blows When it sated …
The New Materialists The Brahminical left in this campus (JNU) in the name of secularism supports every religion instead of critiquing it. As Marx said, “Religion is the opium of the masses”: the Indian Parliamentary left comfortably forgets this for their vote banks of Majority Hindus and Minority Muslims. Secularism is not supporting all religions …
Anoop Kumar (This article was first published in INSIGHT in its November 2004 issue on ‘Reservations’. Anoop Kumar is one of the founder-members of the magazine) 1. Why India continuously gets outwitted by Pakistan in diplomacy at various international fora? Can any of the readers guess? No? Let me explain to you. It is because …
The New Materialists Comrades, we have recently seen the Janmastami celebrations in JNU by right wing and casteist forces i.e. ABVP and NSUI in many places of JNU. Celebration of the Hindu festivals (in the name of celebrating Culture) is the act of enhancing and strengthening the caste system. Krishna, the god of Hindus who …