For An Informed Ambedkar Age
An Appeal to Adivasi-Dalit-Bahujan & International Indigenous Student Community from the Birsaite-Ambedkarite Students & Young Intellectuals of Niyamgiri We, the Adivasi students of Niyamgiri studying in Bhubaneswar as well as other parts of Odisha and the country, want to bring urgent notice to one and all that our homes and families are in grave danger …
Adhvaidha K Pariyerum Perumal is a recently released Tamil movie directed by Mari Selvaraj and produced by director Pa. Ranjith’s Neelam Productions. The film by upholding anti-caste politics and Ambedkarite ideology was well-received by Tamil audience. After a long wait, I went onto watch the film but ended up being disappointed, as I felt, …
Jyoti Nisha What’s common between the fisherman’s son Parshya from Nagraj Manjule’s film Sairat, and the real life of a 24-year-old Pranay, a Bahujan from Mala community from Telangana, Hyderabad who was hacked to death in front of his 21-year-old pregnant wife who belonged to the Komati caste (who claim to be Vaishya), an …
Prateek Khobragade Tomorrow, I have a date with a lynch mob. The question is: should I appear or not? This question at this moment is as important to resolve for me as it is to breathe. For it is a question about, and has at stake, my existence. And my existence, I proudly believe, …
D Aruna Indian Social Systems are characterized and operated by Caste which marks the graded inequality on a vertical ladder resulting out of the Hindu Social Framework with Brahmins being positioned at Top and Shudras, Untouchables at the bottom. Brahmins enjoyed their dominion over knowledge structure which gave them a superior position in the society, …
Shefali Coming across barbaric ways of celebrating Holi by flinging semen filled water balloons over women in the national capital in the name of infamous phrase, ‘bura na mano holi hai’ (don’t mind, it’s Holi), I felt, for the first time, a genuine aversion against the euphoria of Holi celebrations across the subcontinent. Keeping …
The Guilty Warrior After a long hiatus, I am writing something. I work in the Indian Corporate Sector in a fairly decent global multinational corporation (MNC). I work at a leadership level. This sector is supposed to be of people of integrity, secularism, respect for other cultures, diversity etc. It all sounds good on …
Amit Kumar Indian TV news media fully drenched with orgasmic nationalism seems hell bent on demonizing the alleged rioters in the form of large crowds who call themselves Amedkarites, the followers of Ambedkar, on the roads of various cities in Maharashtra especially Mumbai. The genuine question is: “Are the followers of Ambedkar following Ambedkar?” …
Bhagyesha Kurane नितीन आगे हत्यांकाड प्रकरणी पुण्यातील काही विद्यार्थ्यांनी खर्डा या गावाला भेट दिली व नितीनच्या आई वडिलांशी या घटने संदर्भात संवाद साधला.ह्या हत्यांकाडाचा तपास एकूणच कशाप्रकारे झाला, आरोपी निर्दोष होण्यामागील काय कारणे होती, सरकारची भूमिका, इत्यादी बाबी जाणून घेण्याचा प्रयत्न केला. दलित हत्यांकाडाच्या केसेस हाताळत असताना सरकारी अनास्था कशाप्रकारे कार्यरत असते हे त्यांच्याशी …