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2019 Padmashree Daya Pawar Memorial Award for Sheetal Sathe
This year, ‘Padmashri Daya Pawar Smruti Puraskar’ (Padmashri Daya Pawar Memorial Award) was awarded to Meghana Pethe, Sheetal Sathe and Malika Amar Shaikh. This award is given in memory of Padmashr…
OPPARI: An Art of Weeping, Wailing and Lamenting
A group of women form a circle, lamenting and eulogizing; weeping and beating their chests; wailing and jumping to the beats played on the “Parai” (an instrument made of the cow skin). This is an a…
They Asked Me, “Do You Face Caste Discrimination?” – Everyday Experience of a Dalit Woman
Before starting to write my words I want to give one disclaimer here that whatever I am writing comes from my personal lived experience, so if anyone is hurt because of that, I apologise. If you ar…
Babasaheb Ambedkar and Movement of Women
While studying at Columbia University, young Babasaheb wrote a letter back to Jamedar, in which, he is beseeched him to encourage education in the community. He stresses the importance of education…
We Dedicate This Dalit History Month To Our Sister Rajni Tilak
We dedicate Dalit History Month 2018 to Dalit Feminist Rajni Tilak whose activism, writing and leadership were crucial to pushing Dalit women’s leadership in both Dalit and Indian Feminists movemen…
Remembering Mukta Salve – The First Dalit Girl Student Going Towards The Buddha
Mukta Salve, a granddaughter of Lahuji Salve, a fourteen-year ‘Matanga’ (untouchable) girl studying for three years and studying in the third standard in the school of Mahatma and Sawitrbai Phule, …
In Dalit History - Remembering Who We Lost: Anitha
Anitha was a young Dalit girl of only 17. Her background is not different from that of many young kids from marginalized communities in India. Poor, segregated, struggling. Her father is a daily wa…
Babasaheb Ambedkar and His Significance to Liberation of Women in India
The role of Babasaheb Ambedkar in uplifting women in India is very vital. He is mostly reduced to the emancipator of the SCs by the Brahminical propaganda, but his role in the emancipation of women…
Celebrating Dalit History – A Woman’s Revolt : Nangeli
Today in Dalit History we remember the protest of one Bahujan woman in Kerala — Nangeli. Nangeli and her husband lived in the Cherthala region of Kerala in the early 1900s.
At that time, “lower”…
Celebrating Dalit History – The Power of Phoolan Devi!
Today in Dalit history, we commemorate a Bahujan revolutionary — Phoolan Devi.
When Phoolan was in her teens, she was married off against her will. Escaping an abusive marriage and defying all patr…
Celebrating Dalit History – Dr. C. Parvathamma the First Dalit Woman Sociologist!
Today in Dalit history, we fondly remember Dr. C. Parvathamma, the first Dalit woman sociologist in India who won multiple prestigious awards such as the Rajyothsava Award (1990), Gargi Award (1999…
1995, Lucknow Guest House Incident, Mayawati’s ‘Final Test of Courage’
As SP-BSP are trying to come together to fight BJP, Brahminical media is doing everything it can to prevent them from joining hands. There hasn’t been a single media in recent days which hasn’t men…
Dalit Women – At the Centre of Inhuman Discrimination
Many empirical studies have been produced by the renowned institutions to prove how the caste system creates a vicious cycle of poverty and discrimination that affects the people at the lower rungs…
Support Upcoming Documentary – ‘Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar: The Story of Organic Intellectuals’
I am Somnath Waghamare, a documentary filmmaker and a research scholar at the School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before this, I have worked at the Film and Televi…
Savitribai Phule – An Ideal for Social Revolution
The much often quoted dictum of Babasaheb Ambedkar about women’s liberation is: I measure the progress of the community by the progress made by women in the community. In the patriarchal society of…