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Narrow Goal For Women’s Empowerment Is No Less Than Cruelty – Dr Ambedkar
The following text appeared in Marathi in Bahishkrit Bharat, a newspaper started by Dr. Ambedkar on 15 July 1927. Harishchandra Sukhdeve from Nagpur translated it into English
The narrow goal f…
Are We A Nation Of Dr Ambedkar’s Dreams?
Author – Sunny Tawar
On 25th November 1949, while submitting the draft of India’s Constitution, Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar said that “I am of the opinion that in believing that we …
Reservation – Past and Present
Author – Dr. D. Surender Naik
The issue of reservation in India has always been a bone of contention between those who support it and those who don’t. The idea of reservation emerged as a conseq…
Caste and Cricket – How Celebrities Enable Inequality
Authors – Professor Hari Bapuji and Dr Dolly Kikon, University of Melbourne
Recently, Ravindra Jadeja, an Indian international cricketer, hit two fifties in India’s three-day tour match in Engla…
Ambedkar Emerged As Modern Prometheus of India
Author – Vishwanath Shegaonkar, IAS (Retired)
In Greek mythology, the life story of Prometheus, a Titan, was remarkably interesting and adventurous who had protected humankind from its extinctio…
Toxic Hegemonic Hindu (Brahmin-Savarna) Masculinity Causing Vaccine Apartheid During India’s Covid-19 Crisis
Authors: Narmada P and Jyoti B
Vaccine deprivation is falsely presented as vaccine hesitancy among marginalized sections by the mainstream media in India.
Misinformations, rumours, and all ki…
Sikhism, Caste and Ambedkar
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
According to Linda Alcoff, a feminist philosopher and social epistemologist, Identities are culturally located historical formations, open to reinterpretation. She conc…
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[Poem] Hindu Fas(Caste)cism
Why is India Shying to Teach Critical Caste Theory?
Author – Jaimine Vaishnav
Caste is the oldest apartheid that continues to pauperise the human and social capital of the oppressed community, especially the Dalits. Verily, the caste apologists a…
The Problem with Swaero and the Contemporary Discourse on Ambedkarism
Authors – Shogun Gaikwad, Jyoti Bania and Ashok Danavath
Note: We as SC-ST Ambedkarite students, strongly condemn the targeting of Praveen Kumar, IPS by BJP leaders and Hindu Right-wing groups….
In Conversation with Dr Rajkumar Hans, Historian, Professor, Academic and Punjabi Dalit Activist
Author – Dr Suresh Kumar
S. K. It is generally argued that traditional Punjabi societies have been liberal or less casteist as compared to other regions such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu Andhra an…
‘Dharma’ in Mahabharata is a Brahminical Construction, Not any Transcendental Ethical Values
Author – Abhik (Mohd. Uzair)
Savarna Liberal Academicians have always tried to justify both Brahminical Patriarchy and the entrenched caste system in one way or another. The recent addition to t…
Ambedkar International Center Files Amicus Brief in the Cisco Caste Lawsuit
Ambedkar International Center USA has filed an Amicus Brief in Cisco Caste Discrimination Case in California, USA.
Ambedkar International Center has filed an amicus curiae brief opposing Cisco’s…
On Manusmriti Dahan Divas – 8 Ways Brahminical Patriarchy Affects Me
Author – Sheeva Yamuna
I decided to go with an 8 points list, the most clichéd approach to “name” the problem because it is so difficult to put everything in one article otherwise. It is also di…
From Khairlanji To Hathras – Do Dalits Have Access To Legal Justice In This Country?
Author – Sowjanya Tamalapakula
Dalits live like Jews in Holocaust Germany and Black slaves in Pre-capitalist America. Yet, the world knows nothing about their pain! Dalits live in this country w…
