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[Book Review] The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy (An Ambedkarite Reading)
The Light That Failed is an analysis of how the western concept of democracy failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries in the eastern block tried t…
Corona Virus, Science and Buddha
The world is at standstill for almost more than three months now and nobody knows when will the wheels of the economy start churning. Unprecedented. It had never before happened that all continents…
Babasaheb Ambedkar – A Doctor Who Cures Diseased Mind
”A doctor who cures diseased minds” – would be an apt descriptor for Babasaheb. He was a social reformer and talented Indian thinker whose thoughts and ideology proved to be boon for millions of su…
Unlocking India – A Perspective On Prescriptions
India is under lockdown for three weeks and there more weeks are extended, totalling up to six weeks. Though essential public services are on and some sectors seeing gradual opening like constructi…
Emerging Ambedkar Age – How Can We Accelerate The Emergence
The movement having a base among the people never fails and that the movement has reached far and wide is a sign that it is alive and vibrant. This year, Bhim Jayanti set a new benchmark for the co…
A Meditation on Anger and Ambedkar
This 14th of April on Ambedkar Jayanti, I decided to sit down with my anger. I’ve been simmering over a lot of things lately— from India’s blatant classism to communalism and casteism rearing their…
Economic Democracy Amidst COVID-19
Author – Dr. Jas Simran Kehal
”So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough”, King Lear Act IV, Scene I, Shakespeare.
If we translate the original text in accordance with the …
Remembering Babasaheb Ambedkar On 129th Birth Anniversary
As Member (Labour), Viceroy’s Executive Council, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar held from July 20, 1942 to June 29, 1946. These four years eleven months witnessed the social visionary’s intense nation-building…
Understanding Philosophy of John Dewey
According to K.N. Kadam, Babasaheb Ambedkar planned a book on Philosophy of John Dewey. Babasaheb Ambedkar famously said that he owed his intellectual life to John Dewey. The Philosophy of John Dew…
Coronavirus, A Great Divider – Effects On Race And Caste
Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist of NewYorkTimes penned a painful article: Social Distancing Is a Privilege in which he argued that “the idea that this virus is an equal-opportunity killer must i…
The Grammar of Anarchy and Tamil Movie Manusangada
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which…
Be A Lamp Unto Yourselves – The Advice The Migrant Workers Followed
Tasmātihānanda, attadīpā viharatha attasaraṇā anaññasaraṇā
Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge.
(The Mahapa…
UK Rights Organisations Condemn the Imminent Arrest of Prof Dr Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha
Demand prompt release of all political and democratic rights activists in Indian jails
The police in the State of Maharashtra, India, acting at the behest of the central BJP Hindutva government,…
Breath, Mind, and Body – How To Manage Stress and Trauma In A Buddhist Way
We live in an interesting time in which neurobiology is exposing us to our own secrets of breath, mind, and body. There is so much literature available in the market on the connection between mind-…
Covid-19: Responsible Scientific Community
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching so many things. Never in the history of humanity, a collective enterprise to fight Coronavirus was seen as we see today. The scientific laboratories, research inst…
