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Forget Manusmriti, Parashara Smriti is More Casteist and Anti-Women – Read Verses
Smriti means 18 hence there are total 18 Smritis and Bhagavad Gita is also a Smriti. The Smritis are based on the teachings of the Vedas. Parashara Smriti (also called Parashara Dharma Saṃhitā) is …
Why I Use ‘Dalit’ Word
A few weeks ago, Satvendar Madara, a good friend, sent me his article “Dalit word, a conspiracy or a mistake” . Similar discussions keep on taking place in various groups on social media where many…
The Myth of Unity in Diversity
I got an opportunity to listen Dr. Suraj Yendage who is first Indian completed Doctorate in the African university. He had organized public talk serious in India on ‘India for diversity’. He delive…
Set Fire To Brahminical Bullshit History Books
Our fight for justice fails because we don’t know true history.
Historians are supposed to be seekers of truth. They are expected to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. But our experience …
Dysfunctional Government of RSS/BJP
The crack in the ranks of the RSS was exposed widely with the standoff between Togadiya and Modi over the rivalry that has seen many decades. Besides these personal cracks in the ranks, the cracks …
Quotes of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
‘I, E.V. Ramaswamy, have taken upon myself the task of reforming Dravidian Society so that it shall be comparable to other societies of the world, in esteem and enlightenment, and I am solely devot…
6 Principles of Social Mobilisation
Most of us who follow Babasaheb Ambedkar are pained at the divisions in the society and we all expect that we should work in unity. However, the divisiveness is all pervasive in the community and a…
Individual Respect and Social Inequality – A Case of India’s Caste System
In the human society, the class and the self are integrated. Human beings belong to different classes depending on the region they are born, the work that do, the language that speak, the professio…
Support Upcoming Documentary – ‘Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar: The Story of Organic Intellectuals’
I am Somnath Waghamare, a documentary filmmaker and a research scholar at the School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before this, I have worked at the Film and Televi…
Ambedkar, Gandhi, and Patel – The Making of India’s Electoral System
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s name is synonyms with contemporary institutions that are parts of the democratic set up in India. Increasingly, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s name is invoked in every discussion on aspe…
Brahmanist Assault on Sikh Faith – Appropriation of Sikh Faith By Brahmins
Sikhism is facing the same onslaught what Buddhist faced in around the 9th century, Buddhism and Sikhism earned a deep-rooted hostility of Brahmanism because of revolt against Brahmanical philosoph…
Union Budget 2018-19 : Mockery of Social Justice Agenda, Promotion of Corporatisation and Financialisation
Union Budget 2018-19: An exercise in jugglery of numbers.
Press Release | New Delhi, February 8, 2018: Calling this year’s union budget ‘just an exercise in manipulation of numbers,’ veteran act…
Should We Visit Temples Patronised or Controlled by Brahmins and Brahmin Priests?
That is a big question! Indeed A Million-Dollar Question! But sure not difficult to Answer! Only that We have to apply our minds, exercise them and coolly think! That We must!! And definitely!…
Is the Government Authorized to Peep into the Private Lives of People?
In an interesting twist, the SC bench has arrived at the conclusions which cannot be accepted by the citizens of India. The government has no right to the private lives of the people. But the judge…
Brahmanist Assault on Buddhists
The massacres and oppression perpetrated by Brahmanist zealots out of religious hatred for Buddhists in ancient times are a matter of the historical record. Yet, for reasons best known to themselve…