The Indian Muslims and Social Justice
Indian Muslims constitute 18 percent of India’s population. The Islam in India is different from Islam elsewhere. Further, Muslims are not a homogeneous group. They speak different languages and ha…
The Economic Survey 2016-2017 Is Caste Blind
The Economic Surveys are released before the Union Budgets. They are supposed to give the survey of the economy and a comprehensive picture of the economic status. The Economic Survey 2016-2017 is …
Indian Budget 2017 – All Words, No Substance
What does Budget 2017 of India hold for everyone?
The BJP Government has mastered the art of using the words to its political benefits. There is an ongoing campaign on TV where the bunch of Boll…
कौन हैं हम? हर एक दलित की अपनी एक कहानी है
कौन हैं हम? हर एक दलित की अपनी एक कहानी है . प्रकृति का नियम है. घना अँधेरा अपने साथ एक आशा की किरण लाता है. ये किरण सब कुछ दृश्य कर देती है. अँधेरे का निशान मिटा देती है. हम सब की कोई ना कोई कहानी…
Understanding Graded Inequality of Hindu Caste System – Dr Ambedkar’s View
Babasaheb Ambedkar differentiates between inequality and graded inequality of the kind we have in India due to the caste system. Examples of inequality are – inequality or slavery faced by the blac…
What Is In The Name? Everything Is In Surname
Rose will smell the same by any other name. Thus Shakespeare renders words meaningless in terms of identifying the object in the world. But he is also aware of how words and plays on words can crea…
Can Issue-Based Coalition by Opposition Parties Stop BJP in 2019?
In a highly controversial win by the BJP in UP election, Indian politics is going back to 1970’s era. Controversial because there are serious allegations of EVM Scam and even Supreme Court of India…
In India, Why Oppressed Didn’t Rise Against Oppression? Dr Ambedkar’s Views
In spite of widespread inequality, oppression and exploitation in India, why there is no rise of the oppressed and exploited against their oppressors and exploiters? Dr Ambedkar explained –
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Punjab and Dalit Politics
Kejriwal played Dalit card in Punjab. He played that card in Delhi and walked away with a good number of seats. He is not known as the friend of Dalits. In fact, his public life started almost with…
Other Backward Castes (OBCs) and Hindutva
The Other Backward Castes (OBCs) are the fourth Varna in the Brahmanical pecking order of human beings. According to the Brahmanical scheme, they are the Shudras. They are slaves and they have tech…
Is Ambedkarite Movement Losing Its Existence? – From the Diary of 22 Years Old Dalit
Editor – In the business world these days, companies are focusing more and more on listening to the young generation that what they want in products and services? Same is true for politics, if we w…
15 Ways Caste Discrimination Affects Dalit Students
The Caste system is designed in a way that no one can escape it. Here are a few ways in which Dalit students face caste discrimination in a day to day life and at school, college or universities.
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Dalit Female Cook and Mid-day Meal Scheme
It is not only about Mid-day meal scheme almost all schemes running in Uttar Pradesh deals on the basic of caste. The root cause of social injustice of caste system in the state is a rapid growing …
Recalling Naga Ancestry at Conversion to Buddhism
The 1956 conversion to Buddhism was mostly of Mahars of Nagpur region of Maharashtra. By converting millions of these Mahars to Buddhism, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar returned them to the religion of the…
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Poem – I Don’t Need Your [Temple] Bells
I don’t need your bells
Babasaheb fought…
Fought for my rights as human
I couldn’t ring your temple bells
Your gods gave me just inequality
I couldn’t get water from public wells You…