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Lynching of Tabrez Ansari: A Deliberate Executive Prejudice

Shahnawaz Ahmad Ansari Pogroms, communal strife, and massacre have been cultural blots in the garb of reflex action ever since independence because these are ingrained in the bedrock of divided India. But lately, the emergence of ‘spontaneous-mob-lynching’ with a tinge of pride-pouring Hindutva superseded by the enlightened spirit to safeguard its sanctity is, of late, a new craft in the attire of democratic subversion, scripting unveiled snarls. The ‘new-lynching-normal’ of the...

Dalits and dichotomy of the Ganesh festival

Kavita Chohan I am from Haryana. I have been living in Ambedkar’s bhumi Mumbai since the past two years. This is a great time for me to have come in contact with Ambedkarites. I have come to understand that there are various shades and layers to the term 'Ambedkarism'. Ambedkarism is a remarkable and dynamic philosophy. One of my classmates in college is a fervent propagator of Ambedkarism; he chants 'Jai Bhim...

Bobby Kunhu The police have unilaterally decided to dilute the case against the accused in the Tabrez Ansari lynching case from murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, thereby reducing the gravity and culpability of the offence. According to Karthik. S, the Superintendent of Police, Saraikela, Jharkand, this was ostensibly done because the autopsy report reaffirmed by senior doctors has recorded the cause of death as cardiac arrest! You don't need...

In Solidarity with Scholar-Activist Prof Hany Babu

KK Baburaj In my college days in Maharaja's during the 80s, MT Harish was one of my closest friends. Now a professor in medical college, his home then in Punkunnam, Thrissur was a common hangout...

Muslim exceptionalism and the digital public sphere in India

Umar Nizar Muslims in India form a significant minority, numbering almost 140 million. These Muslim belong to various denomination including, Sufi, Salafi and Sunni and the Jama'at-e-Islami. The...

Deaf Republic, or India in 2019

Chanchal Kumar "We lived happily during the war", the first poem in Ilya Kaminsky's book Deaf Republic begins. It continues, And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested
but...

Why Identity politics must win in the upcoming JNUSU election?

Nirban Ray Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who is being forcefully portrayed as the Father of Prime Minister Modi's New India after the 2019 electoral victory of BJP, has conceptualized his idea of...

Marxists Without Marx

Rahul Sonpimple "The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves" Marx wrote in 1864 as the first principle of the self-emancipation of the proletariat....

Perspective

Black Independence Day
15 Aug 2019 22:30 - Raja Dhale

Raja Dhale (In an interview first published in the Marathi journal Khel, Raja Dhale (1940-2019) recounted the history behind his surname ‘Dhale’: soldiers that were historically the standard bearers and advance guards at forts. True to this personal history, Raja Dhale stood at the vang [ ... ]

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Jyoti Chorghe vs State of Maharashtra - A UAPA case study
30 Jul 2019 23:39 - Nikhil SanjayRekha Adsule

Nikhil SanjayRekha Adsule “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” - Harriet Tubman In this post-truth era, where democratic and participatory ethos is [ ... ]

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Remembering Ambedkar
07 May 2018 16:24 - Dr. K. R. Narayanan

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Dr. Ambedkar was one of the giants of our time, one of the great personalities of the Indian national movement and of the Indian renaissance. He was a many- splendored personality, a great scholar, an original thinker, writer, orator, debater, a great jurist and constitu [ ... ]

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Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's speech in the Constituent Assembly on 25th November 1949
26 Nov 2016 15:42 - Dr. Ambedkar

Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's speech in the Constituent Assembly on 25th November 1949 Sir, looking back on the work of the Constituent Assembly it will now be two years, eleven months and seventeen days since it first met on the 9th of December 1946. During this period the Constituent A [ ... ]

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Dalitbahujan Renaissance

Maulana Ali Hussain 'Aasim Bihari': Father of the first Pasmanda Movement and Freedom Fighter
06 Aug 2017 13:43 - Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie

Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie Maulana Ali Hussain "Aasim Bihari" was born on April 15, 1890, in Mohalla Khas Ganj, Bihar Sharif, Nalanda district, Bihar, in a devout but poor Pasmanda weaver family. In 1906, at the young age of 16, he started his career in the Usha organization in Kolkata. W [ ... ]

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‘ಧಾರವಾಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ’ ಆಶಯ ಭಾಷಣ

Created on 21 January 2019

Published on 21 January 2019

Baragur Ramachandrappa

‘ಧಾರವಾಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ’

18, 19, 20 ಜನವರಿ 2019

ಬರಗೂರು ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರಪ್ಪ

ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆಶಯ ಭಾಷಣ

‘ಧಾರವಾಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ’ ಆರಂಭವಾದಾಗ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರಿಗೆ ಹಾಕಿದ ಕೆಲವು ಅನುಚಿತ ಷರತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ನಾನು ವಿರೋಧಿಸಿದ್ದೆ. ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಗಳು ಶಸ್ತ್ರಾಸ್ತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ತರಬಾರದೆಂದು ಹಾಕಿದ ಷರತ್ತು ಸಾಂಸ್ಕøತಿಕ ಲೋಕವನ್ನು ಅನುಮಾನಿಸುವುದಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಅವಮಾನಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಇಂತಹ ಷರತ್ತು ಸಲ್ಲದೆಂದು ನಾನಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವರು ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಆನಂತರ ಇಂತಹ ಅನುಚಿತ ಷರತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೈಬಿಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಶ್ರೀ ಗಿರಡ್ಡಿ ಗೋವಿಂದರಾಜು ಅವರು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಎರಡು ಸಾರಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಡಾ. ಎಂ.ಎಂ. ಕಲಬುರ್ಗಿಯವರೂ ‘ನಿಮ್ಮಂಥವರು ಬರಬೇಕು’ ಎಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಈಗ ಅವರಿಬ್ಬರೂ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅವರಿಬ್ಬರನ್ನು ಗೌರವಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ ನೆನೆಯುತ್ತ ನಾನಿಂದು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ನನ್ನ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆಯ ಅಗತ್ಯವನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಮನೋಭಾಗವಾಗಿರುವ ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಘಟನೆ ಸಹ ಮನವರಿಕೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿದೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ವಿಚಾರಧಾರೆಯನ್ನು ಜನರಿಗೆ ತಲುಪಿಸಲು ಆತ್ಮಸಾಕ್ಷಿಗನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ವೇದಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು ಎಂಬುದು ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯ ನಿಲುವಾಗಿದೆ. ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಈ ನಿಲುವನ್ನು, ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕ್ರಿಯಾಶೀಲ ವಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗಲೂ ಪುನರುಚ್ಚರಿಸಿದೆ. ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯು ನನ್ನ ಮಾತೃಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ನಾನು ಮಾತೃಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಮೂಲ ಆಶಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬದ್ಧನಾಗಿಯೇ ಬದುಕುತ್ತ ಬಂದವನು. ನನ್ನ ಇವತ್ತಿನ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ ಸಹ ನನ್ನ ಬದ್ಧತೆಯ ಭಾಗವಾಗಿದೆ.

डॉ. बाबासाहेबांचा 22 वर्षांचा सहवास लाभलेल्या वास्तू, जेव्हा वाट पाहतात आपल्या भेटीची...

Created on 08 September 2018

Published on 10 September 2018

मयूरी अशोक आढाव-कारंडे (Mayuri Ashok Adhav-Karande)

थोडीफार पूस्तके वाचून बाबासाहेब आणि माता रमाई यांचं सुंदर असं नातं, त्याला चार मुलांच्या अकाली मृत्युची, मातृत्व आणि पितृत्व यांच्या संयुक्तीक आहुतीची, धगधगती किनार असलेलं असं नातं मी रेखाटलं होत. शिंदेंनी, कर्डकांनी आणि संभाजी भगतांनी गायलेल्या अनेक गीतांमधून या माझ्या अलौकिक मायबापाचं किंचितसं विश्व मी माझ्या मनात उभं केलं होत. हा संसार मूर्त रूपात ज्या ठिकाणी थाटला त्या बी. आय. टी चाळमधील दोन खोल्या आजही या अलौकिक त्यागाची साक्ष देत आहेत.

आज वयाची तिशी पार करत असताना ज्या मायबापांनी माझ्या हातात लेखणी दिली, अंगावर घालायला कपडे दिले, स्टेजवर उभं राहून गायची, स्वतःचं मत मांडायची संधी दिली त्या मायबापांनी 22 वर्ष ज्या घरात वास्तव्य केलं त्या निवास स्थानाचं मी आज दर्शन घेतलं.बी. आय. टी चाळ क्रं. १ , खोली क्रमांक ५० व ५१ या महामानवाच्या व माता रमाईच्या जीवनप्रवासातील २२ वर्षाच्या कालखंडाची (सन १९१२ ते सन १९३४ ) साक्ष देणारी इमारत मी आज डोळे भरून पाहिली.शाहू महाराज बाबासाहेबांना भेटायला आल्यानंतर जिथे थांबले, जिथून चालत गेले, हे सर्व या डोळ्यांनी पाहणं म्हणजे या जन्माचं सार्थक होण्यासारखच आहे, माझ्यासाठी तरी... एका खोलीत खैरे कुटुंब राहते आणि दुसऱ्या खोलीत तडीलकर कुटुंब, एक बाबासाहेबांचे स्नेही आणि एक बाबासाहेबांचे नातेवाईक. या कुटुंबीयांना पाहताना असे वाटत होते की बाबासाहेबांच आणि माझ्या