For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Bahujan Students’ Front – University of Hyderabad EFLU- Hyd administration once again proved itself to be casteist by taking the frustrated, prejudiced and casteist decision of rusticating two bright Bahujan students. Mohan Dharavath (DABMSA) and Satish Nainala (TSA) are students who strenuously participate in the cause of de-brahminization of Indian society. Both students hail …
Students of IIPS The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Govandi, Mumbai, is an Institute for Training and Research in Population Studies established in 1956. Since 1985, it has been declared a Deemed University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The predominance of upper caste students has established a strange animosity …
Reju George Mathew Who are the Asuras? What is their relation with the Dravidas? Aren’t these some stories from the Puranas and some assumptions from the past? Let’s forget all those. But, we cannot ignore them easily when, for the past few months or years (let’s also forget the Dravidian movement and other identity …
Dr. N. Sukumar This is in response to the OP-ED article (‘Drop the Rhetoric, Start the Debate‘, The Hindu, June 1st 2013) penned by the honorable Minister of State for Human Resource Development, GOI, Mr. Shashi Tharoor. It is interesting that the state minister for HRD found time to join the debate on the …
Neel Kranti Media Gurinder Azad of Neel Kranti Media, interviews Dr N Sukumar, Prof, Delhi University on the ongoing protests against the new FYUP system in Delhi University. Teachers and students from Delhi University and elsewhere have been analyzing the implications of the FYUP on SC, ST and OBC students and have come together …
Forum against Caste Discrimination in Education A petition shall be sent to the Vice Chancellor, EFLU, protesting the way in which the administration filed cases against 9 SC/ST/OBC students. Please sign the petition ‘Stop Criminalization of SC/ST/OBC students in EFLU’ on change.org to register your protest. Building on this petition, this article discusses the …
Hany Babu & Jenny Rowena There have been enraged debates against the proposed Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) of the Delhi University that is to be introduced from the next Academic session. A large number of teachers and students have already come out in open protest. However, the Union Ministry for HRD has come …
Today, following unrest in EFLU, Hyderabad, after the death of M Narsing Rao, a Dalit contractual employee, the police entered the EFLU campus and lathi charged students and employees who were protesting peacefully demanding compensation for the bereaved family. Many students and employees including faculty members were hurt in the lathi charge. 6 students …
The New Materialists Comrades, we have recently seen the Janmastami celebrations in JNU by right wing and casteist forces i.e. ABVP and NSUI in many places of JNU. Celebration of the Hindu festivals (in the name of celebrating Culture) is the act of enhancing and strengthening the caste system. Krishna, the god of Hindus who …