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Stories of Discrimination in Kerala
Kerala boasted of a development model. The false claim of development was busted by the massive floods that wrecked the state infrastructure and left many, particularly Dalits and Adivasis, homeles…
Relief Discrimination – Even Natural Disasters Cannot Wipe Out Caste Lines
In Kerala, the Dalits are discriminated against during the relief work. During the natural disasters, humanity becomes helpless and many hands come to rescue the affected people. It is heartening t…
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…
Dr. Ambedkar’s Opinion on Indian Census and Why There Should Be Caste-Census in 2021
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar expressed his opinion on Indian Census on 26th October 1947, as follows: Editors.
“The Census of India has over a number of decades ceased to be an operation in demography. It…
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….
Searching For Top Castes – Why Indians are Obsessed with Castes?
One of my foreign friends recently asked me why Indians are so much obsessed with the caste and colour?
A society where your status is decided based on the caste, where caste kills and caste rul…
Geopolitics of Religions in South Asia and Role of Ambedkarite Social Movement
Geopolitics of religions in South Asia and role of Ambedkarite Social movement: Adding China to the geopolitical equation in South Asia
South Asia has a common political history before it was di…
Obsession with Oppressed Abroad: Psychological Guilt of India’s “Self-Declared” Upper Castes
The remarkable development in relationships between the two communities of African Americans and India’s Dalits reached the pinnacle in the recent years. Their association and solidarity is natural…
Communist Manifesto: Reading it in the Context of “Caste Struggle”
Communist manifesto: reading it in the context of “caste struggle” on the eve of the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx
The year marks the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx. He was born on …
Impact of Hindu Caste Divisions on Other Religions
It is a well-known fact that Hindu religion has deep caste divisions. This is one of the major cause of Dalits and other backward caste people willing to convert to other religions like Christianit…
We Dalits Hold The Power Now…
Author – Praveen Ashok
The recorded history of Dalit movement dates back to the 19th century that vehemently challenged the status quo and few of the many recognized faces of this movement are J…
Celebrating Dalit History – The Resistance of Bhagana’s Dalits
In March 2014, four Dalit girls and women were kidnapped and gang-raped by members of the dominant Jat caste in Bhagana village in Haryana. Rakesh Panghal, the village head, and a Jat, condoned the…
Urgent Alert – The State and the Upper Castes are Terrorizing Dalits in Rajasthan
There are many reports coming in from different parts of North India that the administration and the upper caste hooligans are jointly combing the people and terrorising the peaceful demonstrators …
Core Castes and Swing Castes – Election Analysis in India
In the Cambridge Analytica showdown, a lot of dirty secrets are coming in the open. The data companies were employed by the political parties for many analytics, but one of the major reasons to emp…
Global Aspect of Casteism – Rise of Ultra-Right in the World
Alt-Right has not only ideological connections with India, but they have deeper political connections with India’s right-wing party and organization: the BJP and RSS. The founders of Alt Right deri…