For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Gaurav Somwanshi This piece is in continuation with its previous part, the fourth question in a series of seven, but it can be read independently too. This is going to be the longest question to attempt an answer. 4. You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls …
Gaurav Somwanshi In this piece, I seek to outline some questions that arose in my life or I have seen them arise around me, questions which may contain within them their own pitiless answers that form the weather and climate of this caste society. While for some questions, I may not have any answer. …
Jitendra Suna Speech made at the protest by BAPSA on 16th March, 2017 against the Institutional Murder of Muthukrishnan (Rajini Krish) I am Jitendra Suna, and I am from a remote village named Pourkela in the District Kalahandi, Orissa. I completed my high school from B. R. Ambedkar Uchhavidyapitha Pourkela, but never really knew …
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 …
ಡೆರಿಕ್ ಫ಼್ರಾಂಸಿಸ್ (ಪೆರಿಯಾರ್ ಭೀಮ್ ವೆಮುಳಾ) ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ದಲಿತ ವಿದ್ವಾಂಸನ ಕ್ರೂರ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಜವಹರ್ಲಾಲ್ ನೆಹರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ. ಸೇಲಮ್ ನಿಂದ ದಹಲಿಯ ವರೆಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದಿಂದ ಬಂದ 27 ವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ಮುತ್ತುಕೃಷ್ಣನ್ ಇಂತಹ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ತಳ್ಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟದ್ದು ನಮಗೆ, ಈ ಭಾರತ ಎನ್ನುವ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಅವಮಾನಕರ ವಿಶಯ. ಅವನ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವೇನು? ಮುತ್ತುಕೃಷ್ಣನ್, ತನ್ನ ಸಾವಿನ ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳ ಮುಂಚೆ Facebookಅಲ್ಲಿ ತನ್ನ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅಸಮಾನತೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸೂಚನೆಯನ್ನು ಬರೆದ್ದಿದ್ದರು. ಆ …
Gurinder Azad On 27th August 2007, V. Ajay Sree Chandra hanged himself in one of the hostel rooms of the famed IISc, hostel room number F002 to be precise, leaving his father and two younger brothers behind. Yet another prey to the brahmanical devil which lurks around to kill anyone it finds. It doesn’t discriminate …
Kula Nirmulana Porata Samiti (KNPS) I) a) Mr. S. Ramakrishna was born in a poor Dalit family in a remote village of Chittoor District, A.P. and with his hard work he could get his Law degree and was selected as a Junior Civil Judge in A.P. State Judicial Service in 2003. He consciously discharged …
Anoop Kumar His speech at the talk organised by the Ambedkarite Students’ Association at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, held on 22nd December, 2014. The speech has been transcribed by Valliammal Karunakaran. My name is Anoop and I have been working on the issue of Dalit students in Indian campuses for almost …
Bobby Kunhu “My Birth is My Fatal Accident” Rohith Vemula As a law student I was obsessive about Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code which defines attempt to commit suicide as a crime and prescribes a punishment of up to one year along with fine. I believed that the section was unconstitutional and …