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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 …
Caste and Nationalism
Author – Sarthak Mehra
“India is a peculiar country and her nationalists and patriots are a peculiar people. A patriot and a nationalist in India is one who sees with open eyes his fellow men tr…
Lockdown Photo – Stories: Visualising the Everydayness of ‘New Normal’
Photographer – Banshanlang Marwein
Documenting photo stories isn’t easy as it seems because it takes a whole lot of your sharp attention of moments to capture the daily mundane and picture them …
Manu Must Fall But Who Should Strike The First Blow? Brahmin.
After the slave trader Edward Colston was rolled into the harbour in Bristol, the United Kingdom, at the beginning of the June, there has appeared a few articles about the long-lasting demand that …
How Twitter Got Blindsided By India’s Still-toxic Caste System
Authors – Hari Bapuji and Snehanjali Chrispal
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 mill…
India – A Home of Caste Persecution
Author – Kapilendra Das
Architect of the constitution of India Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: quotes “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c…
Religious Rehabilitation – Is it a neglected entity proposed by Dr B R Ambedkar for “caste” as a disease of mind?
Dr B R Ambedkar is recognised as Founding father of Modern India. He was a great social scientist, economist, Barrister of law, human rights activist, philosopher and most educated politician of in…
Plights of Migrants and Economics of Caste
Author – Rahul Sonpimple
Human migration is generally defined as a permanent or temporary change of residence. One can observe migration as a universal phenomenon that exists in developed as wel…
Ambedkarism is Feminism – A Response to ‘Feminism is Brahminism’
Author – Anannya G Madonna
Some scholars in the Dalit circles have been on a crusade to discount, dismiss and disprove the presence of patriarchy among the Dalits taking a jibe at the Dalit womx…
Continuing Dalit and African-American Engagement With Each Other’s Struggle
The murder of George Floyd has invited many comparisons once again with the condition, the situation, the resistance and the political organizations of Dalits and the African-Americans. When people…
Open Letter to Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) Administration
Dear AUD administration,
Online classes and assignments are absolutely antithetical to the principle of social justice and any semblance of equity in a public university. It is based on the excl…
Plague and Coronavirus – History of Disaster Began Over a Century Ago
Author – Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas
Part-I
Plague havoc of over ten million Indians – History of blindness and apathy
“It (Hindu Plague Hospital, Poona) “was managed by a Committee of Brah…