ACDA welcomes California’s action against Cisco Systems Inc on Caste discrimination
This is a great precedent set by Californian regulators legal action against Cisco Systems Inc., that is accused of not protecting an employee subjected to Caste discrimination by two other members…
An Armchair Bahujan Review of Banias Talking Caste
An Introduction
Ever since the early days of Indology patronizingly nurtured under the colonial gaze, we have seen countless Savarna attempts to infer, interpret, dialogue and report on Bahujan …
[Poem] He, the Untouchable (Sacrifice of Centuries)
He, the Untouchable
(Sacrifice of Centuries)
He sat there looking into space,
Expressionless,
He did not dare to look at anything specific
Lest he be misunderstood for being arrogant,
…
Caste and Nationalism
Author – Sarthak Mehra
“India is a peculiar country and her nationalists and patriots are a peculiar people. A patriot and a nationalist in India is one who sees with open eyes his fellow men tr…
Lockdown Photo – Stories: Visualising the Everydayness of ‘New Normal’
Photographer – Banshanlang Marwein
Documenting photo stories isn’t easy as it seems because it takes a whole lot of your sharp attention of moments to capture the daily mundane and picture them …
Manu Must Fall But Who Should Strike The First Blow? Brahmin.
After the slave trader Edward Colston was rolled into the harbour in Bristol, the United Kingdom, at the beginning of the June, there has appeared a few articles about the long-lasting demand that …
शाहूजी महाराज को याद करते हुए
बहुजन महानायकों में एक “शाहूजी महाराज” का आज ही के दिन 26 जून, 1874 में जन्म हुआ था। शाहूजी महाराज एक सच्चे समाज-सुधारक और प्रजातंत्र पर विश्वास रखने वाले व्यक्तित्व के धनी थे। शाहूजी महाराज पर अंग…
How Twitter Got Blindsided By India’s Still-toxic Caste System
Authors – Hari Bapuji and Snehanjali Chrispal
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 mill…
India – A Home of Caste Persecution
Author – Kapilendra Das
Architect of the constitution of India Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: quotes “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c…
Dalits – The Victims of Unmarriageability
The Honourable Madras High Court’s recent verdict in the Udumalpet Shankar murder case is bound to disturb the anti-caste workers in Tamil Nadu. The Court has acquitted the prime accused citing the…
Religious Rehabilitation – Is it a neglected entity proposed by Dr B R Ambedkar for “caste” as a disease of mind?
Dr B R Ambedkar is recognised as Founding father of Modern India. He was a great social scientist, economist, Barrister of law, human rights activist, philosopher and most educated politician of in…
Plights of Migrants and Economics of Caste
Author – Rahul Sonpimple
Human migration is generally defined as a permanent or temporary change of residence. One can observe migration as a universal phenomenon that exists in developed as wel…
भारत में बौद्ध धर्म के खिलाफ हिंदू हिंसा का कोई समानांतर नहीं है
Read it in English from Hindu Violence against Buddhism in India has NO Parallel
अफगानिस्तान में तालिबान नेताओं द्वारा बुद्ध की प्रतिमाओं के निर्मम विध्वंस ने दुनिया के विभिन्न हिस्सों से गंभीर आल…
Whom Does The Buddha Belong To In India?
India is scattered with numerous archaeological sites related to Buddha. Not only present-day India, but the whole of Indian subcontinent known as Jambudvipa in Buddhist and Bharatvarsha in Brahmin…
Depression! Educational Institutions Have Become Slaughterhouses For Dalits
I shall be satisfied if I make the Hindus realize that they are the sick men of India, and that their sickness is causing danger to the health and happiness of other Indians. – Dr Ambedkar in The A…