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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…
Dalits – The Victims of Unmarriageability
The Honourable Madras High Court’s recent verdict in the Udumalpet Shankar murder case is bound to disturb the anti-caste workers in Tamil Nadu. The Court has acquitted the prime accused citing the…
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…
भारत में बौद्ध धर्म के खिलाफ हिंदू हिंसा का कोई समानांतर नहीं है
Read it in English from Hindu Violence against Buddhism in India has NO Parallel
अफगानिस्तान में तालिबान नेताओं द्वारा बुद्ध की प्रतिमाओं के निर्मम विध्वंस ने दुनिया के विभिन्न हिस्सों से गंभीर आल…
Whom Does The Buddha Belong To In India?
India is scattered with numerous archaeological sites related to Buddha. Not only present-day India, but the whole of Indian subcontinent known as Jambudvipa in Buddhist and Bharatvarsha in Brahmin…
Depression! Educational Institutions Have Become Slaughterhouses For Dalits
I shall be satisfied if I make the Hindus realize that they are the sick men of India, and that their sickness is causing danger to the health and happiness of other Indians. – Dr Ambedkar in The A…
An Ambedkarite’s Quest to Reach Blacks – Barrister Khobragade’s Letter to Marotrao Kamble
Recently, the co-author of this article (Dipankar Kamble) found an interesting letter sent by Barrister Khobragade to his grandfather Marotrao Kamble on 30th October 1965 from Atlanta, Georgia. To …
Why Do Scheduled Caste And Scheduled Tribes Need Reparation And Not Just Reservations?
As the movement for the Black Rights intensifies, the demands for the reparation has taken hold of the activists throughout the USA. Some of the states in the USA also started to make policies for …
How Caste, Nepotism, and Bollywood are Interlinked
Bollywood too is an Agrahara. Caste and then Nepotism is the criteria for recruiting actors. The “mainstream” actors and directors are overwhelmingly Upper Castes (UC). Even the so-called struggler…
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…
Dalit Organisations in the UK support the Black Lives Movement and call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to act on Caste Discrimination in the UK
The Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA), on behalf of a number of Dalit organisations in the UK has issued a statement (read it at the end of this post) in support of the Black Lives Matter m…