For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Hisham Ul Wahab P The ongoing protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus demanding a fast probe into the disappearance and return of Najeeb Ahmad, a muslim student of School of Biotechnology, and immediate judicial action against ABVP culprits made a huge outcry among the students and teachers of the campus. But the heinous silence …
Sky Baaba He sat on a throneand made my Dalits sit on the groundtold my Adivasis to stay at his feetwe folded our hands and stood,bringing palms together was all he ever taught my people;changing religion was a rebellionmy people stood shoulder to shoulderand entered mosques and churches; The above excerpt from Sky Baaba’s …
Vivek Singh JNU has been in the limelight since 9th February, when supposedly “anti-national and seditious” slogans were raised in the campus (the matter is sub judice). In this scenario, many eyes were turned towards the JNU Students Union elections which happened this September. What was also evident is that the idea of nation …
Aditya Reading Bathani Tola and Laxmanpur Bathe Judgment* “Everyone strives to attain the law…how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?….The doorkeeper replies……. No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended only for you. I am …
Deepak Kumar In Gujarat, on the 25th of June 2016, an NGO called ‘Human Development and Research Centre’ (HDRC) attempted to problematize and eradicate the social stigma on the untouchables who work as sweepers. But this initiative was welcomed with stone-throwing by the so-called upper castes1. This is the real face of Hinduism and …
Yasmeen Jahan “The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ”outlaw,” the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.” ~ Michel Foucault, ‘Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings’, p. 419 Abstract Marginalization is a process that leads to sidelining of a certain community/individual to the periphery …
SAJD-EFLU Electoral politics in university campuses is generally treated as a routine case of electing a student body to manage student affairs. Far from reflecting a technical problem of event-management, electoral politics is shaped by different groups, attitudes and ideologies that are operating within the student community and the various societal formations within Indian context. …
N. Sukumar and Shailaja Menon “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned” ~ The Buddha In May 2014, the pervasive idea was that Moditva has triumphed and before long the Gujarat Model would usher in Ram …
Arvind Shesh Disclaimer: You perhaps watch a movie as just a film. You probably even look at society as if it were a film… But I watch a film as a society…and society as politics. Wasseypur is a ‘true’ story Has the RSS instituted a new front comprising people from the film industry to …