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Can there be a set of public policies to annihilate the caste system?
The caste system in India is the longest surviving system of slavery which Babasaheb Ambedkar defined as the system of graded inequality. This human inhuman institution is many centuries old. It is…
Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dalits and Question of Caste Discrimination
There are around 12,000 villages in Punjab and according to one report, there are around 8,000 small-big deras in Punjab. Caste divides and discrimination has led Dalits as well as others to form d…
Dalit Women – At the Centre of Inhuman Discrimination
Many empirical studies have been produced by the renowned institutions to prove how the caste system creates a vicious cycle of poverty and discrimination that affects the people at the lower rungs…
Why I Use ‘Dalit’ Word
A few weeks ago, Satvendar Madara, a good friend, sent me his article “Dalit word, a conspiracy or a mistake” . Similar discussions keep on taking place in various groups on social media where many…
The Myth of Unity in Diversity
I got an opportunity to listen Dr. Suraj Yendage who is first Indian completed Doctorate in the African university. He had organized public talk serious in India on ‘India for diversity’. He delive…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
Baba Saheb Ambedkar, SCs & STs and Railways
Ambedkar, Dr Ambedkar – Yes, Dr Ambedkar for the World, Baba Saheb for the Nation, Messiah for SC&ST Dalits – is still called the Leader of the Dalits, Leader of only the SC&ST Dalits. For some, he…
आंबेडकर बनाम हेडगेवार: जाति विनाश बनाम समरस एकात्मवाद
दिलीप मंडल
पुणे के पास भीमा कोरेगांव में दलितों के सालाना जमावड़े पर हमले और उसके बाद के आंदोलन से संघ यानी आरएसएस चिंतित है. मध्य प्रदेश के विदिशा में चल रही संघ के मध्य क्षेत्र की समन्वय बैठक …
Unconscionable – Caste Prejudice in India
In the last week’s edition of the Economist, there is an article on Caste Prejudice in India. The article is focused on the Dalits and the subtext of the article is: Dalits are better off than they…