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How Twitter Got Blindsided By India’s Still-toxic Caste System

How Twitter Got Blindsided By India’s Still-toxic Caste System

Authors – Hari Bapuji and Snehanjali Chrispal

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 mill…

India – A Home of Caste Persecution

Author – Kapilendra Das

Architect of the constitution of India Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: quotes “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c…

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…