For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Foil Vedanta Dear friends, On Tuesday this week, police, with clear complicity of Vedanta, opened fire on the 100th day of protests against the Sterlite copper smelter in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, and killed 12 innocent and unarmed protesters. We will be holding a protest at the India High Commission (WC2B 4) in London on Saturday …
P Victor Vijay Kumar Thousands of years of the varna and caste system took the entire society to an abysmal level of morality and insensitivity towards fellow human beings. The sections at the bottom layers have been intimidated for years to ensure social and economic gains for the brahminical caste Hindus. Of late, the …
Arati Kade Prior to 21st February 2018, I was one of those students who would sit in their rooms or in the library and study, who did not get involved in any political or cultural activities in college, and who never felt comfortable talking to other students in college. But on 20th …
Prashanthi Konday Once upon a time in my childhood, I remember my mother rejecting my wish to join a dance class, volleyball team, and school educational trips because we have to pay extra money other than school fee. She said, all of them don’t give you a job, or good career and we can’t …
Foil Vedanta PROTESTS ESCALATE IN LONDON AND TAMIL NADU, INDIA, AGAINST POLLUTING BRITISH COPPER SMELTER A noisy protest will take place at 2 pm on Saturday 24th March at 42-44 Hill Street in Mayfair, London, as British Tamils armed with traditional Parai drums join with major demonstrations in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, India, against …
Sheetal Kamble In the universities across India, the social-psychologically awakened youth have established students’ associations carrying forth Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s vision. Due to their epistemic activism on campuses, pursuing social justice for backward classes, women, minorities has become easier. These organizations have been a comprehensive support system for the vulnerable students and also their political …
Dr. Ambedkar Society, SOAS In solidarity with TISS students fighting the onslaught of castiest forces on access to education Dr. Ambedkar Society, SOAS, condemns the casteist onslaught on Dalit, Adivasi and OBC students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) campuses across India by denying them access to Post Matric Scholarship. We stand in …
Deepak Kumar Nanda Tata Institute of Social Sciences Students Union 2017-18 had given a university strike in the name of “TISS Bandh” on 21st of February 2018 with three major demands to revoke the policy of Government of India Post Metric Scholarship (GOI-PMS) for the batches of MA 2016-18, 2017-19 and upcoming 2018-20 respectively. In …
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) गेल्या काही वर्षांपासून शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण होत असून ७५ वर्षांपासून सामाजिक कार्यामध्ये ‘सामाजिक न्यायासाठी’ उभ्या असणाऱ्या टाटा सामाजिक विज्ञान संस्थेने इतर खाजगी शिक्षण संस्थांप्रमाणे शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण करून अनुसूचित जाती-जमाती, OBC व इतर कमकुवत तबक्यांतील विद्यार्थ्यांना शुल्क आकरण्यात आले व भरण्याची सक्ती केली आहे. शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण थांबवून भारतीय संविधानाने ठरवून दिलेल्या मूलभूत …