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मुर्दाबाद के नारो के बीच संविधान और आंबेडकर
समकालीन परिपेक्ष मे घटित होने वाली निराशाजनक घटनाये निश्चित ही चिंता का विषय है. भारतीय लोकतंत्र जहा हम सभी को अभिव्यक्ती की स्वतंत्रता प्रदान करता है वही बुनियादी अधिकरो के साथ कुछ कर्तव्य भी निर्…
Footprints of Burden – Casteist Gaze of Indian Society
It’s a typically sunny morning in Chennai as I make my way to the gate, wishfully thinking of lesser traffic during my journey to the coast at Besant Nagar although it’s the peak hour. The smell of…
What a ‘Hindu’ Is and What ‘Hinduism’ Isn’t
Question: How do you explain someone that a pig is unlike any other bird?
Correct Response: The answer doesn’t lie in how a pig is different from other birds but it requires the understanding th…
How Culture Creates the Caste
The great semiotics of our times, Umberto Eco, wrote an important paper in Italian in 1996 titled ‘How Culture Colors the Way We See’. This paper examines how the culture creates the colors we see….
Away from Brahminical Hinduism: Ayya Sect of Tamil Nadu Demands Separate Status
In India, there are many panths and sampradaya. Most of them are very different from each other and they at many times do not hold anything in common. For example, there are so many saints in India…
Religion and Priest Be Brought Under Proper Control – Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
While at Belgaum I heard of the movement started by some of the Parsis in Bombay to found an association, the prime object of which shall be the abolition of priesthood as a caste. The object of su…
Buddha was the Greatest Opponent of Chaturvarna – Dr. Ambedkar
The point of contrast (between Hinduism and Buddhism) lies in the fact that the official gospel of Hinduism is inequality. The doctrine of Chaturvarna is the concrete embodiment of this gospel of i…
प्रतिक्रांति की दार्शनिक पुष्टि : कृष्ण और उनकी गीता – बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर की कलम से
प्राचीन भारत के साहित्य में भगवद्गीता का क्या स्थान है? क्या यह हिंदू धर्म का उसी प्रकार का एक धर्मग्रंथ हैं, जिस प्रकार ईसाई धर्म की बाइबिल है। हिंदू इसे अपना धर्मग्रंथ मानते हैं। अगर यह धर्मग्रंथ…
Jesus’s Challenge to Brahminism
To me first encounter with Jesus was when I was maybe 7-8 years old. I remember receiving booklets on Jesus, in the early 1990s, from Christian missionaries in my village. I also remember, as a chi…
Why “Sakya” Nomenclature? The Power of Sakyan Identity
The British used “Depressed classes” as nomenclature for all Sakyans, the so-called untouchables in the pre-R.T.C. (Round Table Conference) period. But many members of the Sakyan community from al…
Archaeology of Buddhism and Archaeology of Mind
Scores of books are written on the archaeology of mind from many perspectives. But one of the interesting perspectives that take into account the development of the tools by our ancestors and under…
Why Christianity Failed in India
Just a casual look at the history of the Indian church reveals how the missionaries tolerated and accepted caste horrors of the caste system. But there is/was, taking deep roots in the life and pra…
Some Notes on Buddha, Marx, and Babasaheb Ambedkar
Babasaheb Ambedkar read Marx extensively. It is evident from his writings and speeches. He not only read Marx, but also studied it critically as he saw various movements inspired by Marx when he wa…
Is Buddhism Really the New ‘Opium’ of People?
In the Guardian, an article titled “Buddhism is the new opium of people” by Mark Vernon is published a few years ago. It talks about how Buddhism is making people “decouple” from the real issues as…
Buddhism and Democracy – Why Conversion?
In 1941, Babasaheb Ambedkar wrote an important article in Janata (The People) in which he articulated the life and mission of the Buddha on the eve of Buddha Jayanti. In that article in Marathi, he…
