For An Informed Ambedkar Age
PUBLIC STATEMENT WE CONDEMN THE TISS MANAGEMENT’S DECISION TO ROLL BACK FEE EXEMPTION TO SC, ST AND OBC STUDENTS WE CONDEMN GOVERNMENT’S APATHY OVER EXCLUDING DALIT-ADIVASI-BAHUJAN MINORITIES FROM HIGHER EDUCATION We, the alumni of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, offer our support to the call made by the TISS Students Union for a …
Raju Chalwadi Prof. Kancha IIaiah Shepherd is a renowned political scientist and an anti-caste activist. He is one of the fiercest critics of the Hindu social order and caste system in present times. He stands apart from his contemporaries in two respects: first, unlike other well-known critics of Castes and the Hindu social order, …
Raju Chalwadi This letter has been written in keeping with the philosophy that critical self-evaluation and accountability of the movement and leaders itself is necessary and a pre-condition for it to succeed. Dalit politics has reached a critical stage; the decline of BSP and co-optation of prominent Dalit leaders by the current establishment has …
Raju Chalwadi This August 15th marked the completion of 70 years of Independence. The preamble of the constitution way back in 1950 defined India as a place where Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity will prevail and more specifically a place where oppressed sections will live a life with dignity. But, looking at the current …
Raju Chalwadi The Idea of a Tolerant India is socially constructed by the upper castes and the ruling elites. History demonstrates that those who upheld such idea were most intolerant in their action and thought. The debate on intolerance which started with the Dadri mob lynching now seems to be losing discourse in the …
Raju Chalwadi There has been a race among the ruling class and especially among the ruling political class to project itself as true Ambedkarites or Ambedkar Bhakts, but will it dare to follow a single path shown by him….. Because, then there will not be a change in society but a change of society. …
Raju Chalwadi Affirmative action and Merit are two concepts on which every Indian has an opinion, especially, the former. Affirmative action policy is always seen in a negative light because of the ambiguity regarding the rationale for such a policy and its effect on social relations. And the term merit in the Indian context …
Raju Chalwadi Our plural society is going through one of its most fragile phases; the very notion of its multi-identity is under threat. The irony is that the threat is not from outsiders but from its own citizens who are trying to impose their version of history, culture and nationalism on “others.” Since the …