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Thoughts on Ambedkarites and Buddhism
In today’s age of capitalist globalised society, people from downtrodden communities are embracing and following Dr Ambedkar more than ever in history. Young minds from these communities are respon…
Revisiting the Poona Pact
Even after 75 years, the Poona Pact remains the biggest obstacle for the emergence of an autonomous and strong Dalit political leadership.
“Whatever is wrongly settled is never settled and …
बुद्ध पूर्णिमा पर बुद्ध के दुश्मनों को पहचानिए
बुद्ध पूर्णिमा के अवसर पर बुद्ध के सबसे पुराने और सबसे शातिर दुश्मनों को आप आसानी से पहचान सकते हैं। यह दिन बहुत ख़ास है इस दिन आँखें खोलकर चारों तरफ देखिये। बुद्ध की मूल शिक्षाओं को नष्ट करके उसमे …
Nation Builder Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vichar Mahotsav Samiti launches Big Leap 2020, an Online Business Plan Contest
In an effort to promote aspiring Indian Entrepreneurs Nation Builder, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vichar Mahotsav Samiti has launched Online Business Plan Contest Big Leap 2020.
The organizers compri…
एक शादी – दो विचारधाराओं का संघर्ष
एक बहुत ही साधारण सी शादी में हम सम्मिलित हुए | हमारे मित्र की शादी थी, मित्र एक सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हैं | इसलिए जब से उनकी शादी तय हुई थी तो हमारे बीच लगातार विचार विमर्श जारी था | हमारा मानना था क…
Equality Over Merit – Merit Has To Get Balanced With Equality In India
A job or a seat in a college is to be obtained on the basis of Merit. There is a due process to be followed which screens people and the right ones go thru.
Merit puts people to test and ensures…
OMG! – RSS’s Poisonous Secret Agenda
The following appeared in Aajka Surekh Bharat, Nagpur, Oct. 2000, P-44, originally in Hindi, the English version is below. – editor
It is universal that RSS’s attitude towards Muslims is hostile…
Covid–19 Haunts India
COVID-19 is an acronym that stands for CORONAVIRUS DISEASE of 2019. It is a new name given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a press release on 2nd February 2020 for the disease caused by n…
The Value Of A Man Is Axiomatic, Self-Evident – Babasaheb Ambedkar
“On 18th January 1928, a meeting was convened by the Depressed Classes at Trymbak, near Nasik, which is a place of pilgrimage of the Hindus, to consider a proposal for building a temple in the name…
Democracy and Virus – No One Is Safe, Until Everyone Is
As we are staring at an unprecedented situation, many of us confined in our homes or straddled in between if we are poor and unlucky, we know that the world has changed dramatically before our eyes…
Dr Ambedkar’s Message To “Chamar” Community – Your Heirs Will Call You Impotent
In April 1927, to awaken community’s conscience, Babasaheb Ambedkar started a fortnightly bulletin in Marathi called ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’. He regularly wrote on social, economic, political and relig…
When Martin Luther King Jr. Was “Introduced” As An Untouchable In India
Dalits from almost last one century have been trying to build solidarity among discriminated communities across the world. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar had written to Du Bois in 1946 to collaborate with A…
Remembering Narayan Meghaji Lokhande – Father of Trade Union Movement in India
As the labour day is coming near, I sat down to pen contribution, which is little known, of Bahujan icon Narayan Meghaji Lokhande, in championing the cause of workforce in the pre-independence peri…
“Biological Determinism” = Tool Of Oppression
“That’s how Biology works; men produce and women reproduce” or, “Muslims are inherently cruel” or “Dalits are born as Dalits because of their karma in the past”. Do you believe such statements are …
Covid-19 – Maintain Physical Distance, Not Social Distance
Covid-19 has brought a new phrase to the people of India – social distancing. It originated with the World Health Organization’s attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. Though WHO used the phras…
