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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…
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…
Gautam Buddha – The Glorious Master
Author – Vishwanath Shegaonkar
In the annals of human civilization, the 6th Century BC was the most attractive and remarkable one. In this century alone the Greek Philosopher and Mathematician P…
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…
Babasaheb Ambedkar – A Symbol of Knowledge and Sign of Inspiration
Author – Dr. Kapilendra Das
Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, an eminent economist, famous historian, prominent jurist, renowned scholar, strong anthropologist, a statesman, social scie…
The Problem with Swaero and the Contemporary Discourse on Ambedkarism
Authors – Shogun Gaikwad, Jyoti Bania and Ashok Danavath
Note: We as SC-ST Ambedkarite students, strongly condemn the targeting of Praveen Kumar, IPS by BJP leaders and Hindu Right-wing groups….
In Conversation with Dr Rajkumar Hans, Historian, Professor, Academic and Punjabi Dalit Activist
Author – Dr Suresh Kumar
S. K. It is generally argued that traditional Punjabi societies have been liberal or less casteist as compared to other regions such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu Andhra an…
‘Dharma’ in Mahabharata is a Brahminical Construction, Not any Transcendental Ethical Values
Author – Abhik (Mohd. Uzair)
Savarna Liberal Academicians have always tried to justify both Brahminical Patriarchy and the entrenched caste system in one way or another. The recent addition to t…
The Unscrupulous Dance of the Savarna Narrative – An Anti-Caste Critique of ‘Tandav’
Author – Prashant Bhaware
‘Tandav’, a newly released web series on Amazon Prime Video is in the news these days. Some right-wing fundamentalist organizations are demanding to ban the show as it …
The Never-ending Greed of the brahmin savarnas!
Author – Thaiyaan
LinkedIn is a really weird place these days, though the actual aim of the platform is to develop the profession network & facilitate professional development, as usual, the cas…