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Mayawati’s Resignation, Lateral Entry into Bureaucracy, and Smriti Irani as I & B Minister
In the politics like everything else in the human life, the events are interconnected though they might not look that way when we have a cursory glance at them. Mayawati resigned from the Rajya Sab…
Bahujan Political Power is Needed to Destroy the Brahminical Power Structure
Caste system may be anti-democratic and casteism may be racism but not the ethnic identities of the Indian tribes which are mistakenly described as caste. Caste hegemony and caste apartheid could b…
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[Poem] Speak up Against Discrimination of All Kinds
Woke up, worship a deity with weapons, respect; then spoke to a domestic helper with no respect
Went to school, came the teacher, we respect; then came, the Peon, no respect
Went to a hospita…
Development Model of India – A Dalit Perspective
Does the development model that India is following lead everyone to a better place?
Kamala was born in a Dalit family of manual scavengers in Nalgonda district of Telangana. Since childhood, she…
How Kejriwal Stole Rs 7,164 Crore from Schedule Caste Budget?
After Indian independence, budgetary allocation for 30 years till 1980 proved insufficient for the growth of SC & ST population. The most marginalised community SC and ST lagged in all the socioeco…
In Search of Community – Away from Caste and Gender Discrimination
What is a community? What makes one group a community? These are important questions. The caste system is an antithesis to the community. It reduces human beings to the enclosed classes and there i…
Kumari Mayawati’s Resignation – A Wake-up Call for Everyone
Kumari Mayawati, former Chief Minister of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) and one of the most prominent faces of Dalit-Bahujan politics surprised the country when she furiously resigned from Rajya Sabha on …
Mangal Pandey – Drug-crazed Fanatic Whom Hindutva Writers Made Hero
19th July, the birth date of Mangal Pandey, credited by Hindutva writers as the national hero to the first revolutionary to what not. Today, on Twitter #MangalPandey was trending for quite some tim…
Bhavana – Path Towards New Individuals and New Society
The traditional Pali word for meditation is “Bhavana”, which means to make something grow. It has the connotations of cultivation. The Buddha apparently picked up this word by observing the process…
Ramblings on Style – Babasaheb Ambedkar and Various Modes of His Being
When we think of style, we just reduce it to non-essential or even redundant part of what is considered as the “Substance” and there are pithy phrases like – Only Style, No Substance. However, Styl…
बहुजन समाज के एक महान समाज-सुधारक और साहित्यकार स्वामी अछूतानंद जी
बहुजन समाज के एक महान समाज-सुधारक और साहित्यकार “स्वामी अछूतानंद जी” का जन्म 1879 में “चमार” जाति में जिला मैनपुरी, उत्तरप्रदेश के सिरसागंज तहसील ग्राम उमरी में हुआ था। इनके बचपन का नाम “हीरालाल” थ…
बहन मायावती, बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर के बाद अकेली ऐसी नेता जिसने गरीबो-मजलूमों के हक़ के लिया दिया इस्तीफा
हम सब ने देखा है और सब को पता है की एक बार बस कोई MLA जा फिर MP बन जाए तो कुर्सी को ताला लगा लेते है चाहे जनता मरे चाहे जिए ऐसे नेताओ को कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता। उनको तो बस अपनी कुर्सी प्यारी रहती है।
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Stinging Orthodoxy that Cost Lives of Millions of Indians
In the face of adversities wrought by natural calamities, earthquakes, epidemics or widespread disturbances, people stand in unity and solidarity to face unforeseen challenges or misfortunes and tr…
बहुजन और संसद – Bahujans and Parliament
संसद का क्या उद्देश्य है? संसद बनाया गया है ताकि प्रतिनिधि अपने लोगों के लिए नीतियां बनाए। अगर आप अपने लोगों के साथ किए गए अन्याय के बारे में संसद को सूचित करने के लिए किसी सांसद को अनुमति नहीं देत…
Buddhism and Communism – Babasaheb’s Comparative Analysis
Babasaheb Ambedkar was the student of Tripitaka and he read so much on Communism. That was the time when the communism was in ascent all over the world and the Buddhist East was coming into its gri…