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Qualification of Priests at Temples – Brahmins, Fat Tummies & Capacity to Eat 100s of Halwa-Puri?
It is no surprise that the only qualification required to become priests in Brahmin temples in India is to born into a Brahmin family. No one from so-called lower castes is allowed to become priest…
Shadow Armies: Fringe Organizations and Foot Soldiers of Hindutva (Book Review)
Dhirendra K Jha of the Scroll presents an analytical and in-depth analysis of how the fringe organizations of the RSS/BJP operate. His account is full of information and an account of how the organ…
Funds Diverted, SC/ST/OBC Students’ Scholarships Denied
The Brahminical system tries its best to stop Dalit-Bahujans from progressing and adopts different tactics to deprive opportunities of education to Dalit-Bahujan communities. Depriving Dalit-Bahuja…
Caste of Indian Courts – What Is Wrong With The Indian Judicial System?
The ongoing tussle between Justice Karnan of Calcutta High Court and the 7 Supreme Court Judges has exposed the fault-lines in the Indian Judicial system. The fault-lines run much deeper than what …
Baahubali – A Casteist Movie From Casteist Director Who Said Untouchables Are Parasite
In his casteist post on Facebook, Baahubali director S S Rajamouli writes –
We learnt The Caste system from Manusmrithi was based on our lifestyle and not by birth. Mr. Prasad, A gentleman whom I …
Need To Create an Alternate Mulnivasi-Bahujan Culture
“The history of India is nothing but a history of a mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahminism”- Dr. B R Ambedkar
This statement of Babasaheb Ambedkar has far wider connotation than just sign…
Namasudra History Congress – Unknown and Neglected Chapters of History
Namasudra Thinkers & Activists Forum held a first ever 2-day Namasudra History Congress (NHC), February 18-19, 2017 at Calcutta. In important turn of history the populous Namasudra community played…
Why Is The RSS/BJP Government So Secretive?
The goal before the nation and the agenda in a broader form for India is set in the constitution of India. In India, the constitution is supreme, and nothing can be above it, whatever is above it, …
A Call For Bahujan Unity
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 to unite all oppressed, Sthree-Shudra-Atishudra, Adivasis, Muslims and other minorities under one bann…
What Happened to 84,000 Stupas/Viharas Built By Samrat Ashoka?
If you wonder where have the 84,000 ancient Buddhist Viharas, Stupas, Chaityas built by Samrat Ashoka disappeared, the answer lies in following pictures. This is a current sad state of the famous K…
Merit, My Foot: An Attack on an Intellectual Bankruptcy and Backwardness of the Nation
Merit, My Foot (1987) is significant prose work of Rajshekar through which he attacks not only casteism but also the deterministic idea that merit and efficiency are genetically conditioned. This w…
A Tale of a Monkey, Tiger and a Holy Cow in Brahminical India
In Jharkhand, a monkey killed a cow. In Una, where the four young Dalits were whipped and flogged in the public, a tiger killed the cow, which the Dalits were skinning. The cow vigilante (Gau-Raksh…
FABO (UK) Celebrated Dr Ambedkar Jayanti at the British Parliament
On 26 April, a seminar to mark the 126 birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar, was organised by the Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisations UK (FABO UK) and hosted by Lord Harries of Pentreg…
Who Are The Leaders of Maoist Movement? No Surprises! Upper Caste Brahmins Only
It is no surprise that from Indian media to courts and almost every sphere of life, Brahmins who constitute around 5% of the total population of India, dominate, filling almost all the top position…
Dr Ambedkar Jayanti Celebrated at United Nations
When 75 year old Champabai, a Dalit, illiterate women, who worked 18 hours a day and earn less than a one dollar, but still send her kid to Harvard & University of Pennsylvania, mother of five kids…