Round Table India Continued from here. This is the second part of the transcription of Round Table India’s interaction with Prof Vivek Kumar, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, for the Ambedkar Age series of films. In the interview, Prof Vivek Kumar …
MODI-fest or MODI-jest: Making of Deaf India
Mangesh Dahiwale As predicted, the RSS/BJP Government is going for a massive public campaign to display the achievements of the Government after three years. The campaign will be run from a control room in New Delhi and the programs called “MODIfest” are arranged all over India. MODI stands for “Making Of Developed India”. Modi …
Civic Education for the Oppressed and the Oppressors: How different it should be
S Karthikeyan A young 27 years old Muthukrishnan Jeevanantham aka Rajini Krish who was pursuing Ph.D. in Jawarharlal Nehru University (JNU) allegedly committed suicide on Monday, March 14, 2017. I say ‘allegedly’ since I firmly believe it’s another institutional murder thanks to discriminative practices that exist in Indian campuses. Such unfortunate incidents have taken …
जे.एन.यू. में ब्राह्मणवाद की खेती: जितेन्द्र सुना
जितेन्द्र सुना मुथुकृष्ण्न की संस्थानिक हत्या के विरोध में 16 मार्च, 2017, को बपसा द्वारा आयोजित प्रदर्शन मे भाषण; अंग्रेजी से हिंदी में अनुवाद: अंजली मेरा नाम जितेन्द्र सुना है और मैं उड़ीसा के कालाहांडी जिले के एक सुदूर गाँव पोउर्केला से हूँ| मैंने अपनी हाई स्कूल की पढाई बी. आर. अम्बेडकर उच्च विद्यापीठ पोउर्केला से की, …
ಎರಡು ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ಹತ್ಯೆಗಳ ನಡುವೆ..!
ಮಂಜುನಾಥ ನರಗುಂದ (Manjunath Naragund) ಕಾರ್ಲ್ ಮಾರ್ಕ್ಸ್ ನ “History repeats itself. First as tragedy, second as farce” ಎನ್ನುವ ಮಾತು ಸದ್ಯ ರೋಹಿತ್ ವೇಮುಲಾ ಮತ್ತು ರಜಿನಿ ಕ್ರಿಷ್ ಅವರ ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ಹತ್ಯೆಗಳ ಚಿತ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.ಇವರಿಬ್ಬರ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಮುನ್ನ ಇಂತಹವೇ ಹಲವು ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗಳು ವಿವಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಾಗಲೂ ಅವು ಸೀಮಿತ ಚೌಕಟ್ಟಿನೊಳಗೆ ಬಂಧಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದವು. ಆದರೆ, ರೋಹಿತನ ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ಸೀಮಿತ ಸಂಕೋಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಿತ್ತು ತನ್ನ ಒಳಸಂಕಟದ ಬೇಗುದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಜಗದಗಲ ತೆರೆದಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು …
When Equality is Denied, Everything is Denied
Periyar Bhim Vemula Another Dalit scholar has committed suicide, this time in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Muthukrishnan (27), a self-made student, who travelled all the way to Delhi from Salem was pushed to this state by this society, this empire called India. What are the reasons for his suicide? Muthukrishnan had written a small post …
Ambedkarism Is the Path of a New Liberated Democratic World
Chalo Thiruvananthapuram Article Series – Part 1 Sathy Angamali Democracy is a total world view that human kind could attain through ideological discourses. But the root cause to the problems that we are entangled in lies in the fact that in contemporary India, not only the fundamental values of democracy are rejected, but the majority …
Brahminical Conversations on Dalit Politics
Koonal Duggal and Kavita Bhanot A poster was recently shared widely on social media advertising a panel discussion at the 2017 Delhi Book Fair, titled ‘Contemporary Dalit Politics’. The event was a discussion around Badri Narayan Tiwari’s new book Fractured Tales: Invisibles in Indian Democracy, which makes a case for the ways in which …
सत्य, सत्याग्रह, शूद्र, दलित और भारतीय नैतिकता
संजय जोठे (Sanjay Jothe) सामाजिक राजनीतिक आन्दोलनों में एक लंबे समय से “आत्मपीड़क सत्याग्रह” प्रचलन में बने हुए हैं. ऐसे भूख हड़ताल, उपोषण, आमरण अनशन जैसे तरीकों से समाज के एक बड़े वर्ग को झकझोरने में सफलता भी मिलती आई है. ये तकनीकें और “टूल” सफल भी रहे हैं और उनकी सफलताओं से जन्मी …