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From A Broomstick To A Pen, A Camera And A Mic In My Hands
Author – Sahil Valmiki
The well of death of ‘caste-based profession’ was ready for me too like hundreds of thousand people, today I have a pen, a camera, and a mic in my hand instead of a brooms…
Reservation – Past and Present
Author – Dr. D. Surender Naik
The issue of reservation in India has always been a bone of contention between those who support it and those who don’t. The idea of reservation emerged as a conseq…
India’s Government Must Do More To End Caste-based Sexual Violence – Say Dalit Women’s Rights Activists
Dalit women’s rights activists in the National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) are voicing serious concerns about how India is failing to meet its legal and moral obligations to protect Dalit women…
Remembering Gail Omvedt
Author – Mangesh Dahiwale
In the social movement and revolution, the example of people sacrificing their everything is rare and those who sacrifice their everything for the community in which th…
Former Chief Minister Mayawati – The Success of Dr. Ambedkar’s Constitution
Author – Ritesh
3rd June 1995, Behenji became the first time Chief Minister of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh. The day has been celebrated as सामाजिक परिवर्तन दिवस (social reform day). For…
Ambedkar Emerged As Modern Prometheus of India
Author – Vishwanath Shegaonkar, IAS (Retired)
In Greek mythology, the life story of Prometheus, a Titan, was remarkably interesting and adventurous who had protected humankind from its extinctio…
Sexuality and Buddhism
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Sexuality is one’s capacity for sexual feelings. It is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviour, practices, and …
Meet Saka Shailaja – A Dalit Woman Entrepreneur Who Has Uplifted 10,000+ Underprivileged Women in Telangana
47-year-old Saka Shailaja has been doing awe-inspiring work over the last two decades in empowering and economically enabling thousands of women in Telangana – especially women from the Schedul…
Crossroads of Covid – Time for Theological Transition
Authors – Dr Anuradha Bele and Dr Jas Simran Kehal
Reading about Mahavir and Buddha with my son in his class VI ICSE history textbook took us back to the 6th century BC. The chapter explained th…
Toxic Hegemonic Hindu (Brahmin-Savarna) Masculinity Causing Vaccine Apartheid During India’s Covid-19 Crisis
Authors: Narmada P and Jyoti B
Vaccine deprivation is falsely presented as vaccine hesitancy among marginalized sections by the mainstream media in India.
Misinformations, rumours, and all ki…
Sikhism, Caste and Ambedkar
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
According to Linda Alcoff, a feminist philosopher and social epistemologist, Identities are culturally located historical formations, open to reinterpretation. She conc…
Why is India Shying to Teach Critical Caste Theory?
Author – Jaimine Vaishnav
Caste is the oldest apartheid that continues to pauperise the human and social capital of the oppressed community, especially the Dalits. Verily, the caste apologists a…
Spread of Casteism – In India and Beyond
Author – Sunny Tawar
“If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world problem”- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
These words of Ambedkar seems to be proving true as there have b…
Karnan – Movie Review
Author – Bhagyashri Boywad
The recently released movie, Karnan is directed by Mari Selvaraj and the lead role is played by actor Dhanush. The movie starts with a girl laying down on the street, …
Caste at IITs – Statement by APPSC IIT Bombay
It is amidst desolate cries and the numbing daily reports of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the nation, that we all have witnessed a video recording of an online class for t…