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Documentary on Chaitybhoomi – An Appeal for Crowdfunding
I am Somnath Waghmare, a documentary filmmaker and a PhD scholar at TISS Mumbai. I have also worked as a contract employee at FTII, Pune. I am associated with the progressive social movement in Mah…
My Eulogy For Dr. Vasant G. Baile
Written by – Dr Anuradha Bele
One of my fondest memories of my father is my younger sister and me eagerly sitting with him after dinner and clamouring for a story. He usually dipped back into hi…
Youth As Both Risk And Victim Of Dissent
Author – Garima Sharma
Youth is considered to be a period of significance as it is a threshold, an eventual arrival at the status of adulthood. This status of Adulthood itself is problematic in …
From Khairlanji To Hathras – Do Dalits Have Access To Legal Justice In This Country?
Author – Sowjanya Tamalapakula
Dalits live like Jews in Holocaust Germany and Black slaves in Pre-capitalist America. Yet, the world knows nothing about their pain! Dalits live in this country w…
How To Be An Ally? Here Is The Answer
Author – Shivani Waldekar
In the USA, on 25th May 2020, when Gorge Floyd, an unarmed Black man, murdered in police custody by Minneapolis and video viral were showed a white police officer kneel…
Caste Location and Issues – Towards An Anthropology of Gujjars
Author – Ravikant Kisana, Assistant Professor at Flame University, Pune | 17 Oct 2020
NEED FOR STUDYING THE MANY ‘JAN’ OF THE BAHUJAN:
It was the late Kanshi Ram, who first electorally weaponize…
Investing in Payback
Author – Dr. Sireesha Patibandla and Dr. Jas Simran Kehal
Gurpreet (name changed), a Dalit girl from a poor family in Punjab scores more than 99% in class XII exams and national daily catapults …
Remembering Saheb Kanshi Ram
Author – Dr Jas Simran Kehal
India has been a land of social diversities. These diversities bred discrimination which was countered by social, political and religious personalities from time to …
Dalit First, Woman Next
Author – Kaveeya Tamizh
Gangraped, thrust with an iron rod in private parts, intestines ripped apart and DEAD.
Gangraped, strangled, tongue mutilated, spine crushed and DEAD.
These are ju…
NRI Ambedkarites from USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France among others Demand Justice for the Victim of #HathrasCase
Strong Condemnation of Hathras, Balrampur, Azamgarh, Bulandshahar Caste motivated hate crimes such as rapes/murders in UP, India
NRI Ambedkarites from the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Ned…
Dalit Organisations and Supporters In The United Kingdom Demand Justice For Miss Manisha Valmiki
Open Joint Statement to the High Commissioner of India in London for the attention of the Prime Minister of India – 2 October 2020
DALIT ORGANISATIONS AND SUPPORTERS IN THE UK DEMAND JUSTICE F…
Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History
Author – Dr. Raj Kumar Hans
Growing out of the powerful, anticaste sant tradition of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in northern India, the Sikh variant of Guru Nanak (1469–1539) and his …
Did Savarkar Believe In and Promoted Untouchability?
Author – Harishchandra Sukhdeve
“… When these Mahar ‘untouchable’ folk coming from Sanatan Hindu majority villages go back to their villages now after embracing Buddhism at Nagpur will they be c…
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[Sign Now] Statement Condemning the Arrest of Bahujan Journalist Prashant Kanojia
Sign the statement and share it with others.
On 18 August 2020, Bahujan journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police. He is being held in custody over a tweet he had forwarde…
Unpacking Caste-related Crimes in Indian Cities
Author – Meenakshi Yadav
A mention of violence against Dalits puts forth images of incidents like those of flogging of Dalits in Una, Gujarat, or of the more recent rape and murder of a Dalit te…