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Foundation For Human Horizon – End Caste Discrimination by 2030: A Call of Action to United Nations
In the 1940s, Dr. Ambedkar contacted Du Bois to inquire about the National Negro Congress petition to the U.N., which attempted to secure minority rights through the U.N. council. In a letter dated…
IIT Mains Topper, Kalpit Veerwal, “Doesn’t Look Like Dalit” – People Searching His Caste
Many times you might also have heard that – caste doesn’t matter, talent does. We disagree. Caste matters in India in all spheres of life. People in India ask others about their caste before they e…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Veerammal, Founder of All India Ambedkar Mission
The Self-Respect Movement led by Thanthai Periyar was probably one of the most radically feminist movements to have ever taken place in the subcontinent. Way ahead of their time, Self-respecters ad…
Fighting for Forests: Digitalisation and Politicisation of the Tribes
Tribes in India constitute over 9 percent of India’s population according to NSSO. This is a significant number. However, some states in India are overwhelming tribal dominated and some states have…
Ambedkar International Mission Celebrated Dr Ambedkar Jayanti in New York (USA)
PRESS RELEASE
126th Birth Anniversary of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar
Pedro Albizu Campos Public School, New York, U.S.A
22nd April 2017
Ambedkar International Mission (AIM)‐ USA paid tribute to Dr …
Upper Castes Encroachment, Forceful Land Acquisition and Torn Apart Dalit Adivasi Lives
Most upper caste scholars and academicians attribute the advent of liberalization and free market only after 1991 trying to dilute the upper caste hegemony and its feudal practices that has been fo…
क्यों ना बदली जाए ब्रह्मिणो दवारा प्रचलित विवाह प्रक्रिया?
विवाह का सीजन चल रहा है ,पर किसी आम हिन्दू से पूछा जाये की विवाह में क्या होता है तो उस को सबसे पहले याद आएगा विवाह में ब्राह्मण महाराज का विवाहिक मन्त्र पढना , वर-वधू का रात भर पंडित जी द्वारा उठक…
In BJP Ruled Rajasthan, Dalit Writer Kusum Meghwal Getting Death Threats
The author of more than 65 books, Dalit writer Kusum Meghwal from Rajasthan is getting death threats from so-called upper caste goons in BJP ruled Rajasthan. Kusum Meghwal said that she has receive…
Brahminical Media Loves Dalit Students Committing Suicide, Not Dalit Toppers
On 27th April 2017, CBSE declared the results for the IIT Mains and Dalit boy Kalpit Veerwal was declared topper. Dalit, Kalpit Veerwal, topped IIT Mains with a perfect score – 360/360! What merit …
What Merit? Dalit, Kalpit Veerwal, Topped IIT Mains With 360/360 Score
Stereotypes about Dalit-Bahujan community are so prevalent despite reality showing the different picture. Media and rulers don’t want Dalits to know their strength and they always try to demonize D…
Appeal To Support National Alliance of Dalit Organisations
National Alliance of Dalit Organisations (NADO ) Idukky district Secretary Saramma Joseph started a hunger strike in front of the Devi kulam taluk office today at 11am. Her protest is for recoverin…
Elections and Bahujan Samaj
If we study the elections in different states in India, they display certain patterns and they can be grouped into broader categories in terms of social movement. This seems to begin to change when…
Dalit History Month – Eklavya and the Adivasi-Dalit Rejection of Brahminism
The myth of Eklavya is taken by many in the Adivasi and Dalit communities as an example of the social havoc Brahminism attempts to wreak. In the Mahabarata, Eklavya is written as a tribal (Nishada)…
Threatened, the Nation of ‘We, the People’
India has a long history of civilization. Even if we keep aside stories of mythology, India has the distinction of giving to the world first modern religion based on human dignity, love and compas…
This Is How Aadhaar Card For Cows Will Look Like
Recently, BJP government proposed that all the cows in India should have Aadhaar Card and social media cannot stop laughing at the BJP government’s decision.
“All animals are equal, but some anima…