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The Livelihood of Manual Scavengers in India and Prospects for their Future Well Being
Author – Ishan Parmar. He is a high school senior at Newark Academy, New Jersey. His research is based on marginalized and underprivileged communities.
Mentor Professors: Divya Cherian, Princeton …
Savitribai Phule, Symbol of Resistance, Does Not Belong to Brahmins
I live in a different time zone, so things take a little while before they reach me.
As an aspiring sociologist, I have been taught that making one’s positionality explicit is important when con…
Ambedkarite Thinkers Series – Bharat Wankhade, Founder of Mudita Multipurpose Society
Bharat Aryan (Wankhade) and Mudita Multipurpose Society: Sharing Joy and Sorrow of the Community
Bharat Aryan (Wankhade) is the founder of Mudita Multipurpose Society. Bharat is an exceptional c…
Constitution Is Not Fascist, People Are
Every constitution in the world has biases in favor of dominant (so-called majority) communities. That is why there have always been pressures to include protective or affirmative measures for cult…
Onam – What Jotiba Phule Said About King Bali and Vamana
Jotiba Phule’s book, Gulamgiri (‘Slavery’), presents Bali in a positive light and Vaman is seen as cunning, deceitful, treacherous and ungrateful.
Here, are a few excerpts from Slavery, an Engli…
Ways Ahead For The Ambedkarite Ravidassia Movement
After the demolition of the Ravidas Temple in New Delhi, the North Indian Ambedkarites have aroused the community and the community is mobilised with millions have taken to the streets of Delhi, Pu…
Why We Should Demand Caste Census
In many ways, caste is about the number but for Savarana, it is an institution. They are aware of the electoral class of caste.
In 1980, the Mandal commission assumed that the OBC component was …
Objectives of Social Change Will Not Be Achieved Without Phuley-Ambedkarite Ideology
Note – This article was written around 2005.
The central theme of the subject is that the objective of social change will not be achieved unless and until there is polarisation based on the Phul…
Kanshiramji – The Pragmatic Sharp-Edge of Bahujan Samaj Party; The Man, His Mission and His Grand Victories
‘Capture the temple of Political power into your hands to secure your political rights.’ – Dr. Ambedkar.
Nurturing Mindset
Merit is a relative term. What is a merit for them (upper caste) i…
Strategies That We Can Draw From Periyar’s Life and Mission to Counter Hindutva
After his death, Periyar invokes fear in the minds of Brahmins/Hindutva forces and mixed response among the Dalits in Tamil Nadu. Any person and his actions can be understood only with the understa…
Welcome The Blue Dawn – A Mental Health Care Support Group For Bahujans
“What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamen…
The Indian Muslims and Social Justice
Indian Muslims constitute 18 percent of India’s population. The Islam in India is different from Islam elsewhere. Further, Muslims are not a homogeneous group. They speak different languages and ha…
Jai Bhim: What does it mean?
What does Jai Bhim mean to you?
Ambedkar in Hungary – Documentary on Ambedkar Schools in Hungary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isB43Rr5sU
Check also –
- Ambedkar in Hungary (Article)
What is the nature of #DalitMuslimUnity?
By – Dr. K. Jamanadas
This is in response to an article by Adv. Md. Karim (DV.June 1- 15, 97). It was a great misfortune that Dr. Ambedkar and Br. Jinnah could not work together, Adv. Karim says. H…