For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Milind Thokal 29 Sept 2006. 15 years of the most cruel, heinous and barbarian act that took place in Khairlanji village of Mohadi taluka of Bhandara district in Maharashtra where a Dalit family was raped, murdered and killed at the village square and disposed of in a canal. These incidents are a new normal …
Sonali Shirke In Baburha village, Unnao district, of Uttar Pradesh, a horrific incident of atrocities against Dalit girls has once again come to light on February 17 (many such incidents happen every day which do not come to light). Three minor girls who live in a Dalit locality, went to fetch fodder in the field …
Harshali Nagrale India recorded an average of 87 rape cases every day in 2019 and 4,05,861 cases of crimes against women during the year – a rise of over seven per cent from 2018. Out of the total 32,033 reported rape cases in the year, 11 per cent were from the Dalit community (NCRB,2019). …
Dipankar Kamble Since last couple of months many issues are coming to the fore in the news. This includes the Supreme Court’s ruling on SC/ST POA Act and Dalit outrage (#BharatBandh) and the counter protest by Savarnas against reservation policy and call for Bandh. First, we need to understand that what was the objective of …
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) १ जानेवारी हा दिवस सर्वांच्या जीवनामध्ये नवीन वर्ष घेऊन येणारा दिवस, नवीन अशा, अपेक्षा, प्रेरणा, संकल्प यांच्या समवेत येणाऱ्या नवीन वर्षाचे स्वागत आणि गेलेल्या वर्षाला निरोप देत सर्वजण आनंद साजरा करतात. त्याच प्रमाणे महाराष्ट्रात डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकरांचे जन्मजात लाखो अनुयायी आणि त्यांच्या विचारांना व आचारांना आत्मसात करून अंगीकरणारे लाखो अनुयायी …
Round Table India We publish here an excerpt from the newly released collection of poetry by Yogesh Maitreya titled The Bridge of Migration. Following is the introduction by Kuffir, Editor of Round Table India, featured in this book of powerful series of poems. ~ we must fill blood in our pensinstead of ink, and write …
Dilip Mandal “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” – Barack Hussain Obama, quoting Atticus Finch, in his farewell speech on 10th January, 2017.1 It all started with a paper in EPW. Professor Vivek Kumar, …
ಹುಚ್ಚಂಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಸಂತೇಬೆನ್ನೂರು (Hucchangi Prasad) ಇಂದು ಡಾ.ಬಿ.ಅರ್.ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರ 125 ನೇ ಜನ್ಮೋತ್ಸವದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತ ಮಿಂದೇಳುತ್ತಿದೆ. ವಿಶ್ವಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರ ಜಯಂತಿಯನ್ನು ”ಜಾಗತೀಕ ಜ್ಞಾನ” ದಿನವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥಪೊರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಆಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಭಾರತದ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಂಗ್ರೇಸ್ ಪಕ್ಷದ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿಗಳು ಬಾಬಾಸಾಹೇಬರ ಉತ್ಸವ ಮೂರ್ತಿಯನ್ನೊತ್ತು ಹೊಗಳುತ್ತ ಪ್ಲೆಕ್ಸ್‌ ಹಾಗೂ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಭೂಬ್ಬೆಹೊಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ದೇಶದ ಪ್ರಧಾನಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳಾದ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿಯಂತು ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರನ್ನು ಮೈಮೇಲೆ ಅವಾಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಂತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತ ಲಂಡನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ವಾಸವಿದ್ದ ಮನೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಚನ್ನೈನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅವರ ಸಮಾಧಿಯನ್ನು ಅಬಿವೃದ್ದಿಗೂಳಿಸಿ ಪ್ರವಾಸಿತಾಣವಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಲು …
Kshirod Nag I joined JNU as an M.A. student of Sociology in the year 2008. I didn’t have any idea about ‘caste’, ‘class’, ‘gender’ ‘social change’, ‘revolution’, ‘Ambekarism’, ‘Marxism’, ‘Maoism’ or any other ‘ISM’ for that matter, except Gandhism and Hinduism (as if in India, one has a birthright to know these two isms). …