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Dalits – The Victims of Unmarriageability
The Honourable Madras High Court’s recent verdict in the Udumalpet Shankar murder case is bound to disturb the anti-caste workers in Tamil Nadu. The Court has acquitted the prime accused citing the…
Plights of Migrants and Economics of Caste
Author – Rahul Sonpimple
Human migration is generally defined as a permanent or temporary change of residence. One can observe migration as a universal phenomenon that exists in developed as wel…
Depression! Educational Institutions Have Become Slaughterhouses For Dalits
I shall be satisfied if I make the Hindus realize that they are the sick men of India, and that their sickness is causing danger to the health and happiness of other Indians. – Dr Ambedkar in The A…
Why Do Scheduled Caste And Scheduled Tribes Need Reparation And Not Just Reservations?
As the movement for the Black Rights intensifies, the demands for the reparation has taken hold of the activists throughout the USA. Some of the states in the USA also started to make policies for …
How Caste, Nepotism, and Bollywood are Interlinked
Bollywood too is an Agrahara. Caste and then Nepotism is the criteria for recruiting actors. The “mainstream” actors and directors are overwhelmingly Upper Castes (UC). Even the so-called struggler…
Dalit Organisations in the UK support the Black Lives Movement and call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to act on Caste Discrimination in the UK
The Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA), on behalf of a number of Dalit organisations in the UK has issued a statement (read it at the end of this post) in support of the Black Lives Matter m…
#DalitLivesMatter – What Can We Learn From #BlackLivesMatter
Dalit movement is a vibrant movement. The growing arguments and counterarguments in the Dalit movement on the issues of religion, strategies for emancipation, feminism, democracy, policies, and cul…
Deconstructing a ‘Love Letter’ by a Brahmin Woman
Author – Thaiyaan
This article is called a love letter was written to a high caste woman from an Indian-American mother of black children. Now the title is changed from what it was
First,…
Yuvraj Singh Maafi Maango But #CasteOfCricket Will Continue Unless…
Yuvraj Singh maafi maango (#युवराज_सिंह_माफी_मांगो) has been trending on Twitter for a while now as fans want ex-cricketer to apologise for his remark on Yuzvendra Chahal. Yuvraj Singh had used a …
Lockdown’s Impact – No End To Suffering Of Dalits
A deadly CORONAVIRUS was born and named as COVID-19, a pandemic disease (CORONAVIRUS DISEASE OF – 2019). COVID-19 turned into a calamity, and the entire world is facing serious and several crises. …
Dalit Feminism
“Who, just tell me, who the hell is that new girl? Doesn’t she know that she has to bow down to the master? Shameless bitch! How dare she pass me without showing due respect? At this, the girl’s in…
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[Book Review] Republic Of Caste – Thinking Equality In Times Of Neoliberal Hindutva
Author of the book – Anand Teltumbde
Reviewed by – Kabir Dev
On the 24th of August, 2019 Arun Jaitley a Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart passed away at AIIMS after suffering from a prolonged ill…
Deconstructing Celebrities – From Socio-psychological Dementia of the Society towards (Bahujan) Consciousness
Who chooses Celebrities for us?
Why are Bollywood actors who are a big obfuscation against the Bahujan interests, come to become their celebrities? Sometimes it becomes necessary to ask poignant …
As The Lotus Blooms, Love Glooms
Author – Dr Jas Simran Kehal
The urge for affectionate relationships with a person of individual choice is one of our basic and fundamental necessities. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of basic…
एक शादी – दो विचारधाराओं का संघर्ष
एक बहुत ही साधारण सी शादी में हम सम्मिलित हुए | हमारे मित्र की शादी थी, मित्र एक सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हैं | इसलिए जब से उनकी शादी तय हुई थी तो हमारे बीच लगातार विचार विमर्श जारी था | हमारा मानना था क…