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‘Jai Bhim’ Is Not For Commodification
Recently a Tamil movie was released on Amazon prime named Jai Bhim. It is directed by T .J. Gnanavel. The movie is based on the real-life story of how the primitive Irula tribe in Villupuram distri…
Intersectionality – Experiences Of The Marginalised Women
Author – Dr. Amritpal Kaur
Women’s oppression is the most widespread and the deepest form of oppression in our society. Women all over the world have been relegated to the position of the other,…
Poona Pact And Current Punjab Politics
Author – Dr Jas Simran Kehal
Revisiting the Poona pact through literature, I was wondering what frame of mind Dr Ambedkar would have been prior to signing the pact. One needs to have nerves of s…
Are We A Nation Of Dr Ambedkar’s Dreams?
Author – Sunny Tawar
On 25th November 1949, while submitting the draft of India’s Constitution, Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar said that “I am of the opinion that in believing that we …
From A Broomstick To A Pen, A Camera And A Mic In My Hands
Author – Sahil Valmiki
The well of death of ‘caste-based profession’ was ready for me too like hundreds of thousand people, today I have a pen, a camera, and a mic in my hand instead of a brooms…
Reservation – Past and Present
Author – Dr. D. Surender Naik
The issue of reservation in India has always been a bone of contention between those who support it and those who don’t. The idea of reservation emerged as a conseq…
India’s Government Must Do More To End Caste-based Sexual Violence – Say Dalit Women’s Rights Activists
Dalit women’s rights activists in the National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) are voicing serious concerns about how India is failing to meet its legal and moral obligations to protect Dalit women…
Remembering Gail Omvedt
Author – Mangesh Dahiwale
In the social movement and revolution, the example of people sacrificing their everything is rare and those who sacrifice their everything for the community in which th…
Former Chief Minister Mayawati – The Success of Dr. Ambedkar’s Constitution
Author – Ritesh
3rd June 1995, Behenji became the first time Chief Minister of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh. The day has been celebrated as सामाजिक परिवर्तन दिवस (social reform day). For…
Sexuality and Buddhism
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Sexuality is one’s capacity for sexual feelings. It is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviour, practices, and …
Meet Saka Shailaja – A Dalit Woman Entrepreneur Who Has Uplifted 10,000+ Underprivileged Women in Telangana
47-year-old Saka Shailaja has been doing awe-inspiring work over the last two decades in empowering and economically enabling thousands of women in Telangana – especially women from the Schedul…
Crossroads of Covid – Time for Theological Transition
Authors – Dr Anuradha Bele and Dr Jas Simran Kehal
Reading about Mahavir and Buddha with my son in his class VI ICSE history textbook took us back to the 6th century BC. The chapter explained th…
In Conversation With Prof Raj Kumar – Academic, Theorist, Critic
– Dr. Suresh Kumar
Suresh Kumar (SK): It is generally noted that most Dalit writers prefer autobiographies to express themselves. What according to you is the reason for this choice?
Raj Kum…
Toxic Hegemonic Hindu (Brahmin-Savarna) Masculinity Causing Vaccine Apartheid During India’s Covid-19 Crisis
Authors: Narmada P and Jyoti B
Vaccine deprivation is falsely presented as vaccine hesitancy among marginalized sections by the mainstream media in India.
Misinformations, rumours, and all ki…
Sikhism, Caste and Ambedkar
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
According to Linda Alcoff, a feminist philosopher and social epistemologist, Identities are culturally located historical formations, open to reinterpretation. She conc…