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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…
नेहरू ने डॉ अम्बेडकर का किया अपमान जब उन्होंने ‘बुद्ध और उनके धम्म’ को प्रकाशित करने के लिए मदद मांगी
डॉ बाबासाहेब अम्बेडकर ने अपने लेखन को प्रकाशित करने के लिए पूरे जीवन संघर्ष किया। उनकी ज्यादातर किताबें बंबई के एक प्रकाशक ‘थाकर एंड कंपनी’ द्वारा प्रकाशित की जाती थीं। यह एक छोटा–सा ज्ञात तथ्य है …
आरक्षण – 10 सवाल और जवाब जो आपको पढ़ने चाहिए
Read in English from Reservation – 10 Questions And Answers That You Should Read
प्रश्न १: आरक्षण क्या है?
आरक्षण शब्द एक “मिथ्य” है। इसके लिए भारतीय संविधान में इस्तेमाल किया गया उचित शब्द “प्र…
What Indian Corporate Should Do About #DalitLivesMatter
The killing of George Floyd last month sparked protests all over the USA and around the world, with #BlackLivesMatter hashtag trending for many days on Twitter. Since then, racial discrimination ha…
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…
Did Buddhism Sprout as an Anti-thesis to Vedic Brahmanism?
Right from our first school to our last university class, we are taught that in ancient times Vedic-ism had spread in India numerous centuries before the birth of Buddha and that the Vedic saints w…
22 तथ्य जो आप ज्योतिबा फुले के बारे में नहीं जानते
Read it in English from 22 Things You Most Likely Didn’t Know About Jotiba Phule
Translated to Hindi by – Raj and Jatin
जोतिबा फुले आधुनिक भारत के महात्मा हैं। उनका उल्लेखनीय प्रभाव अंधेर युग के …
रामायण ने हिंदुओ को कैसे कट्टरपंथी बनाया और हिन्दुत्व राष्ट्रवाद को आगे लाया
“मैंने अपने पिता को बताया की मुझे महाभारत का कोई भी किरदार पसंद नहीं आया। मैने कहा, “मुझे भीष्म और द्रोणा पसंद नहीं आया और न ही कृष्णा। भीष्म और द्रोणा कपटी थे। उन्होने एक बात कही और बिलकुल विपरीत …
