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Concept Note: Vimukta Month – Where Goes Our Freedom?
Prepared by – Disha Wadekar and Arati Kade
The struggles, histories, culture and assertions of nomadic and denotified tribes have become a profitable enterprise for many. The discourses of nomad…
Dalitbandhu And The Quest For Buddhist India
Dalitbandu was the mouthpiece of All India Scheduled Caste Federation in Marathi language and it was edited by a firebrand Buddhist Ambedkarite, P.N.Rajbhoj. The Marathi word Dalitbandu can be tran…
Why The EIA 2020 Draft Means Nothing To Me
Author – Kaveeya Tamizh
Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIA) 2020 draft, such a terrible move made by the government. How atrocious! It has been sharply criticised by environmental and clim…
Language Trap In Education
Author – Tanoj Meshram, Date – Aug 5, 2020
During this week an important development happened – the release of the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Understandably, there has been a lot of pushba…
The Necessity and Complexity of Gender Quota in India
Author – Rashmi Bhushan
The institutionalisation of Panchayat Raj through the 73rd Amendment Act is one of the most remarkable changes in the history of decentralisation of power. It has been mo…
सरकार द्वारा मंजूर राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति 2020 से ‘आरक्षण’ नदारद
केंद्र सरकार ने पिछले हफ्ते राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति को मंजूरी दे दी। जून 2019 में डॉ. के. कस्तूरीरंगन (इस्रो के भूतपूर्व अध्यक्ष) समिति का मसौदा सरकार ने जारी किया था. तभी से राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति पू…
National Education Policy Aggravates The Toxicity of Discrimination in Education and Society
Author – Harishchandra Sukhdeve
Savitribai Phule, a revolutionary in her own right and a worthy wife of a great revolutionary Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, launched her first school exclusively for gir…
New National Education Policy (2020) – Gardening and Such Hobbies Can Get You Degrees
Author – Harishchandra Sukhdeve
The Modi Govt cabinet, on July 29, gave the green signal to the much-touted National Education Policy (NEP). Dr. K. Kasturirangan Committee had submitted a draft …
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Speech at BHU on 25 November 1956
(Translator’s note: This speech appeared in Prabuddha Bharat in Marathi and this speech summarizes Babasaheb’s great insights into Indian history. Please give it a read to understand Babasaheb on t…
“C” Through The Caste
Author – Dr Jatinder Singh
The Hindu reformers including political ones like Gandhi have advocated that people of all castes should be treated equally, but none has advocated denouncing of caste…
Our Solidarity with the Dalit Movement in Nepal
We, Nepali graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculties studying and teaching in universities abroad, strongly condemn recent caste killings, rapes, and death in police custody in Nepal…
Cisco Caste Discrimination Case – Understand the Threat of Brahmins as Power-Hungry Monsters
The recent Cisco case brought out the caste discrimination, a dark secret which no one had so far talked about. However, there is a big misconception and skewed narrative in the coverage by the med…
Caste in Contemporary Urban India
Author – Sarthak Mehra
The heart of the caste system mainly rests on three main characteristics, endogamy, untouchability, and the division of labour, i.e. association between caste and occupati…
Why Brahmins Should Abolish Birth Based Reservation – Reply to Mr. Markandey Katju
1. The birth based reservation allows only a few percentages of Brahmins to join lucrative and lazy job like priesthood in temples. Rest of the Brahmins are left to become terrorists like Vikas…
Indian Patriarchy – An Intersection of Caste, Class and Gender
Author – Dr. Amritpal Kaur
The human social organisation has evolved through a series of stages: animal-like sexual promiscuity was followed by matriarchy (rule of the mother), which was in turn…