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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…
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…
An Ambedkarite’s Quest to Reach Blacks – Barrister Khobragade’s Letter to Marotrao Kamble
Recently, the co-author of this article (Dipankar Kamble) found an interesting letter sent by Barrister Khobragade to his grandfather Marotrao Kamble on 30th October 1965 from Atlanta, Georgia. To …
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…
Ambedkarism is Feminism – A Response to ‘Feminism is Brahminism’
Author – Anannya G Madonna
Some scholars in the Dalit circles have been on a crusade to discount, dismiss and disprove the presence of patriarchy among the Dalits taking a jibe at the Dalit womx…
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…
आरक्षण – 10 सवाल और जवाब जो आपको पढ़ने चाहिए
Read in English from Reservation – 10 Questions And Answers That You Should Read
प्रश्न १: आरक्षण क्या है?
आरक्षण शब्द एक “मिथ्य” है। इसके लिए भारतीय संविधान में इस्तेमाल किया गया उचित शब्द “प्र…
What Indian Corporate Should Do About #DalitLivesMatter
The killing of George Floyd last month sparked protests all over the USA and around the world, with #BlackLivesMatter hashtag trending for many days on Twitter. Since then, racial discrimination ha…
Continuing Dalit and African-American Engagement With Each Other’s Struggle
The murder of George Floyd has invited many comparisons once again with the condition, the situation, the resistance and the political organizations of Dalits and the African-Americans. When people…
Did Buddhism Sprout as an Anti-thesis to Vedic Brahmanism?
Right from our first school to our last university class, we are taught that in ancient times Vedic-ism had spread in India numerous centuries before the birth of Buddha and that the Vedic saints w…
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s ‘Love’ Letter To His Beloved Wife Ramabai
On December 30, 1930, while in London, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar wrote this letter to his wife Ramabai. Originally it is written in Marathi by Babasaheb and is translated to Hindi by the Forward Press te…
Plague and Coronavirus – History of Disaster Began Over a Century Ago
Author – Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas
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Plague havoc of over ten million Indians – History of blindness and apathy
“It (Hindu Plague Hospital, Poona) “was managed by a Committee of Brah…
Pandemic Unfolds Human Tragedy In India
Author – Kapilendra Das
India got freedom and emerged as a republic with its own constitution. A billion people of the nation have completed their journey of 72 years and are entering their 73 y…
“जाती” और “नस्ल” – दो अलग तरह के भेदभाव लेकिन अनगिनत समानताएं
यूरोपीय मूल के लोगों द्वारा अफ्रीकी मूल के अश्वेत लोगों के साथ किया जाने वाला नस्लीय भेदभाव हो या भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप की पिछड़ी और अनुसूचित जातियों का ब्राह्मणों द्वारा किया जाने वाला जातीय भेदभाव। ऊप…