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Personal Experiences and Views on Surnames
Many individuals feel proud to tell their name if it has Surname. This is mainly because Surname talks of their caste. However, this holds good if the person belongs to the so-called higher caste. …
African Americans and Dalits
Written on January 29, 2013
Gerald Horne’s End of Empires: African Americans and India published in 2008 and Nico Slate’s Colored Cosmopolitanism: the shared struggle for freedom in the United S…
India’s Missing Middle Class – India’s Growth Story is the Fiction of Casteist Mind
India’s missing middle class and its connection with the caste system in India: India’s growth story is the fiction of casteist mind
In the recent edition of the Economist, the cover story is In…
Atrocity Nation – How Long Will We Continue to Kill People in the Name of Caste?
Sonai Massacre of 2013 is one of the horrifying cases of atrocities. As such, according to our own official reports, the atrocities are taking place during the writing of this small piece somewhere…
Film Screening of “Project Heartland” at the University of Magdeburg “Otto-von- Guericke”, Germany
07 December 2017
On the occasion of the 62nd Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Mahaparinirvan Diwas (death anniversary), a public screening of the documentary series Project Heartland was organized on Thur…
RSS and Its Rejection of Indian Constitution and Indian Tri-colour National Flag
On the occasion of Republic Day, the country must know that the people who are currently ruling India neither accepted the Indian constitution as lawbook of the country nor they accepted Tricolour …
Rohith Vemula – From Stardust to Galaxy
Two years back, Rohith Vemula set the world on fire. The letter that he left behind after his departure from the world of mortals was read, reread, analyzed, re-analyzed, thought, rethought, and wa…
Yogi and Violence in UP – The Nation of Encounters
The media is filled with the stories of encounters in UP and recently a boy was killed in the crossfire of encounters in UP. The state should be by nature non-violent and if it has to use controlle…
जान से प्यारे गणतंत्र, विश्विद्यालयों में सब ठीक नहीं है
लेख को शुरू करने से पहले इस राष्ट्र में कुछ न भुलाई जा सकने वाली, बोली और लिखी गयी बातो को आपको पुनः याद दिलाना चाहता हूँ, मैं चाहता हूँ आप इस बार या भविष्य में जब भी भारत के गणतंत्र दिवश के जश्न …
Modi’s ‘Ease of Living’ is Actually ‘Ease of Dying’
In a well-rehearsed interview to Times Now, Modi made many claims to the people of India. And he even boasted that he brought the inflation down and also Indian businesses on the track. And one of …
Modi and His Empire of Lies!
When the last year, Xi Jinping, was invited to WEF at Davos, he created a paradigm shift in the perception of China in the world community. The focus looked like shifted from America under Trump to…
Twitter Silencing Ambedkarite Voices, #BringDardediscourseBack
I have been locked off Twitter since Jan 14. Twitter is asking for my phone number to verify to make sure am not a bot. (Lol, yeah! I know how that sounds like) But, I don’t wanna trust a white / s…
Murdering Democracy in India – RSS/BJP’s Clampdown on Buddhists in Maharashtra
The state has no authority over the people and the people are not the slaves to the state. If the state acts in a way that arrests the body of the people, the people have a right to ask why their b…
Editorials on Bhima Koregaon – Distorting the Realities
On 8th January 2018, two leading dailies Indian Express (henceforth Express) and the Times of India (henceforth Times) carried main editorials on Bhima Koregaon. They have come up with different an…
Caste of Music – Why Pa Ranjith is Right to launch “Casteless Collective”
Pa Ranjith is one of the leading filmmakers of India. His two movies created earthquakes in the Indian cinema: Madras and Kabali. He is a creative genius and a sensible fighter for the rights of th…