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Personal Experiences and Views on Surnames
Many individuals feel proud to tell their name if it has Surname. This is mainly because Surname talks of their caste. However, this holds good if the person belongs to the so-called higher caste. …
African Americans and Dalits
Written on January 29, 2013
Gerald Horne’s End of Empires: African Americans and India published in 2008 and Nico Slate’s Colored Cosmopolitanism: the shared struggle for freedom in the United S…
Atrocity Nation – How Long Will We Continue to Kill People in the Name of Caste?
Sonai Massacre of 2013 is one of the horrifying cases of atrocities. As such, according to our own official reports, the atrocities are taking place during the writing of this small piece somewhere…
Film Screening of “Project Heartland” at the University of Magdeburg “Otto-von- Guericke”, Germany
07 December 2017
On the occasion of the 62nd Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Mahaparinirvan Diwas (death anniversary), a public screening of the documentary series Project Heartland was organized on Thur…
Rohith Vemula – From Stardust to Galaxy
Two years back, Rohith Vemula set the world on fire. The letter that he left behind after his departure from the world of mortals was read, reread, analyzed, re-analyzed, thought, rethought, and wa…
Twitter Silencing Ambedkarite Voices, #BringDardediscourseBack
I have been locked off Twitter since Jan 14. Twitter is asking for my phone number to verify to make sure am not a bot. (Lol, yeah! I know how that sounds like) But, I don’t wanna trust a white / s…
Savitribai Phule – An Ideal for Social Revolution
The much often quoted dictum of Babasaheb Ambedkar about women’s liberation is: I measure the progress of the community by the progress made by women in the community. In the patriarchal society of…
Murdering Democracy in India – RSS/BJP’s Clampdown on Buddhists in Maharashtra
The state has no authority over the people and the people are not the slaves to the state. If the state acts in a way that arrests the body of the people, the people have a right to ask why their b…
Editorials on Bhima Koregaon – Distorting the Realities
On 8th January 2018, two leading dailies Indian Express (henceforth Express) and the Times of India (henceforth Times) carried main editorials on Bhima Koregaon. They have come up with different an…
Caste of Music – Why Pa Ranjith is Right to launch “Casteless Collective”
Pa Ranjith is one of the leading filmmakers of India. His two movies created earthquakes in the Indian cinema: Madras and Kabali. He is a creative genius and a sensible fighter for the rights of th…
From the Hell of Caste to Human Liberation – Una and Bhima Koregaon
When the four youths were publicly flogged in Una for their alleged killing of a cow, the people who are degraded by the upper caste erupted with protests. The agitation in Gujarat reached all over…
Dr. Ambedkar took the vow for us, what was it?
“At present, I am the most hated man in Hindu India. I am presented as a traitor; I am denounced as an enemy of the Hindus, I am cursed as a destroyer of Hinduism, and branded as the greatest enemy…
Self-Promotion over Organisation? We Need to Set Priorities Right
It was a time of Kanshiramji when the media guys would do all that they can just to get a byte from Kanshiramji. All his life he kept media at safe distance, knowing fully well that the media will …
How to Turn Agitation into Organisation?
Babasaheb Ambedkar gave a trinity of principles for the social transformation: educate, agitate, and organise. Sometimes, there is a debate on the order in which they must be expressed, but educati…
Why Should Kejriwal Appointing 2 Guptas in Rajya Sabha be Treated as a Treason by Dalits?
In the middle of a political turmoil throughout India due to movement of social justice, the media did not pay or highlight any concerns over AAP’s appointing two Guptas as the Rajya Sabha members….