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Highly Disruptive CAA-NRC
Modi-Shah’s decision to pass the CAA and extend NRC to the whole of India has provoked nationwide spontaneous protests. These are without any political leader and cut across communities led mainly …
3rd January in Dalit History – Remembering Jaipal Singh Munda: Unsung Hockey Champion Who Won An Olympic Gold For India
It wasn’t Subhash Chandra Bose alone who turned down the Indian Civil Service. Jaipal Singh Munda did, too, and went on to become the voice of the Adivasis in the Constituent Assembly, where he spo…
Let’s Remember Revolutionary Jesus
The following article is written by Dr. K. Jamanadas in 2000. – editor
An article “Gospel and the Dalit Struggle for a new identity” by M. Deenabandhu, who teaches at Gurukul Theological College…
D for Democracy, Not Dictatorship
Going by the book, Democracy is the system of governing for the people, by the people, and of the people. Apart from this, what people know about democracy is that the elected representatives engag…
Poomani’s Vekkai in the Times of Nexus between Criminal Society and State.
कठीण आला काळ,
मातीशी तुटे नाळ,
युगाचा अंध खेळ,
डोळेच केले गहाळ.
सावात दिसे चोर,
घुबडात दिसे मोर,
लहानात दिसे थोर,
थोरात दिसे पोर.
– Ballad from the movie ‘Court’
There …
Confused Intellect – Treacherous Policy: Final National Education Policy 2019
Author – Harishchandra Sukhdeve
Modi government think tank had presented the draft National Education Policy 2019 (DraftNEP2019} in June 2019 after four years of ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking. It wa…
Brahmins and Brahminism – Can the two be separated?
This article is a reply to those Brahmin sympathisers who give the impression that the two can be separated as if the followers of any ideology can continue having the same identity even after reje…
Twitter Promotes Casteism, Islamophobia and Bigotry
India, a country with 1.3 billion people where the whole population is stratified in layers and layers of caste, religion, gender, region, class, skin color, language and so on. From this diverse p…
Ambedkarite Awakening
The awakening initiated by Babasaheb must transcend caste, class, gender, nation, race, and all that divides humanity into conflicting groups. This is the highest goal and aim of the Ambedkarite mo…
Social Media Companies In India Must Address Caste Abuse
In the last couple of days, the anger of Dalits against social media companies was evident in the form of tweets on Twitter against the unfair and discriminatory regulatory policies. Dalits put eff…
“I Have No Homeland” – Dr Ambedkar in Meeting with Mr. Gandhi, August 14, 1931
The meeting between Gandhi and Ambedkar on August 14, 1931, at Manibhavan, Malabar Hill, Bombay
(transcripts of Gandhi’s talks were routinely made by his secretaries)
Slightly edited from Dhana…
Why #CasteistTwitter Shouldn’t Surprise You
Today (November 2, 2019) #CasteistTwitter and #SackManishMaheshwari were trending on Twitter after the account of social activist Dilip Mandal was blocked by Twitter but it shouldn’t surprise anyon…
Vijaya (dashami), Asuras and Rakshasas – And the Public Spectacle of Victory
Author – Ananda Maitreya
There have been several write-ups and books about the symbolism of characters and categories such as the asuras, rakshasas, danavas etc as they are depicted in Hindu liter…
For Those Who Joined and left Kanshi Ram in Hurry
This has reference to the letter of Shri S.M.Mir (DV April 16-30,98). Mr. Mir calls himself a ‘staunch supporter of Dalit-Muslim Unity’ and had joined BSP but ‘left it soon as Kanshiram joined hand…
Rise of Dalit Feminism
The issues and problems faced by Dalit women are as wide as the nation itself. Dalit women’s position in the Indian society is neglected, pathetic and sorrowful because of various forms of discrimi…