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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…
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 …
A Shameful Chapter Shut Out of Public Knowledge – Surrender of Temple of Jagannath, Puri to the East India Company
Author – Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas
Part-I
Jagannath Temple, Puri surrendered to East India Company, 1803!
When intelligentsia hesitates or shy away in documenting facts, touching critical eve…
“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…
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…
Let’s Talk Racism in India
Author – Mrinal Borah
“The State Government has decided to ban commercial import and trading of dogs and dog markets and also the sale of dog meat, both cooked and uncooked. Appreciate the wise …
The ‘Privilege’ That Shrouds Encounter of a Brahmin Gangster
Author – Kalyani
The encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey has thrown open many questions and debates. The mainstream media has discussed the many facets of the encounter including the authenticity …
Government Scholarships for SCs, STs and OBCs to Pursue Higher Studies in India and Abroad
The focus on affirmative action policies in the popular discourse often zeros down to reservations. Currently, reservations are the strongest form of affirmative action which need to be vehemently …
Remembering Mariamma Chedathy – Dalit Folk Artist From Kerala
Author – Sheeja Radhakrishnan,
Introduction
Mariamma John – better known as Mariamma Chedathy – was a well known Dalit folk artist in Kerala. Mariamma Chetathi who worked in a college as a sweepe…
An Armchair Bahujan Review of Banias Talking Caste
An Introduction
Ever since the early days of Indology patronizingly nurtured under the colonial gaze, we have seen countless Savarna attempts to infer, interpret, dialogue and report on Bahujan …