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TagThe Greatest Indian – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Recently, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has been ranked as “The Greatest Indian”. You can watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J48dmpKoyPo or you can read about it at http://www.outlookindia.com…
What can a ‘sincere’ upper caste person do?
It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you wo…
Untouchability and Satyamev Jayate
Few days back, I watched the episode “Untouchability – Dignity For All” on the Satyamev Jayate show on 8th July, 2012. Many people rated it as a ‘great’ show but I don’t accept it as a ‘great’ show…
Buddhism in the Daravi slums
Mumbai’s Way: Buddhism in the Daravi slums (Visits to Daravi slums with Dr. Arun Kamble)
You can also watch the same video from this link https://vimeo.com/9441279
My Uncle, Few Memories and Conversion
Few weeks ago, I lost my uncle (my father’s elder brother, profoundly called “taya ji”). He was the eldest member of my family and was in eighties. Last time, I’d met him in November, 2011 and he …
They Fear “You”
They fear you because you’re young, strong, learning self respect,
They fear you because you are educating yourselves – getting inspiration from Dr Ambedkar,
They fear you because of your rich hist…
Few rare pictures of Behan Mayawati and Sahib Kanshi Ram Ji
Mayawati, extreme right with her parents Prabhu Das Dayal and Ramrati Devi and five of her seven siblings in the 1960s. Below On her 47th birthday Behan Mayawati with her mentor Sahib Kanshi Ram J…
“I Have a Dream” for Dalits of India
There is no nation of Indians in the real sense of the world; it is yet to be created. In believing we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. How can people divided into thousand of cast…
Right to Recall: A Dalit’s Viewpoint
Few months ago, after raising the toast on the success of Jan Lokpal Bill, Anna & Co. started demanding right to recall, electoral reform and voicing pro-death penalty. Since then Anna is in contro…
शिक्षा की जाति
“Only whores choose their own partners”
Honouring Dalits with Blood
Once, I asked writers who had already written on the issue of a Khap Panchayats that what’s the role played by caste in the brutalities of Khap Panchayats i.e. how Dalit…
CasteWatchUK Conference – “Caste & Equality Act – Next Steps”
Untouchables (Dalits) are made “Religious, Economic and Political Slaves” by “Hindu Caste System”.
A bit of background:
Reports (July, 2006) of “Dalit Solidarity Network UK (DSN)” clearly show…
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar & His Writings (Published in year)
- Castes in India, May 1916
- The National Dividend of India, 1916
- Small Holdings in India and Their Remedies, 1917
- Weekly ‘Mook Nayak’, Started 31st January 1920
- Provincial Decentralisation of…