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…
Ram Rajya is the Casteist, Racist and Anti-Women Kingdom
Hindu nationalists in the USA are losing no words to praise Trump and his divisive policies. Shalabh Kumar, a Hindu nationalist, close to Trump and was an integral part of Trump’s campaign iterated…
Making Parliament a House of Lies and Factionalism – Modi and His Rhetoric in Rajya Sabha
In his speech addressed to RS and broadcasted all over India through RSTV, Modi hit the bottom low. He spent all his time and energy on how the Congress party destroyed India. There is some grain o…
Devadasi – Holy Aryan Hindu Prostitution System in Indian Temples
Devadasi system is not only exploitation of women, it is the institutionalized exploitation of women; it is the exploitation of Dalits, the lower class of untouchables; it is the religious sanction…
Babasaheb Ambedkar – Rebel, Reformer or a Revolutionary
Ambedkar was definitely a Rebel – when he had himself chosen to lead a crusade against the well-established & accepted social norms of the Society. In that, he chose to question & violate the clear…