Venkatappa Art Gallery: Apathy of the State Sheela Gowda As is well known, starting 2016, for two years, many artists from Karnataka, joined hands to passionately engage and strategize the fight for saving VAG from…
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Encroachment and Inequality in the shadow of India’s Silicon Valley: The story of Bangalore Rural – Dr Yellappa Reddy Bangalore urban and rural Panchayat population exceeds 2.5 million compared to Bangalore‘s 1.5 million. Bangalore rural…
Life and Social Philosophy of His Divine Holiness Narayana Guru Harshkumar Kugwe It is commendable that the government of Karnataka is celebrating the birthday of the great thinker Sri Narayana Guru as an official ceremony….
B R Bhaskar on Chalo Udupi: My Food, My Land B. R. Bhaskar Prasad was interviewed by Palani Samy and Nidhin Sowjanya for Dalit Camera before the Chalo Udupi rally. The text was translated from Kannada by Savitha Rajamani, Vinod Pushparaj, Chinnamma and Anusha Suresh. The interview…
Remembering Bitter Truths on the way to Udupi Dr C S Dwarakanath Jignesh Mevani, a young dalit leader who has inspired many across the country with his protests against the flogging of Dalits in Una,…
Where are the professional dalits in the media? by Dinesh Aminmattu [This is the text of the speech ‘Inclusivity of professional dalits in the media”(ಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವೃತ್ತಿಪರ ದಲಿತರ ಒಳ್ಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ’) delivered in Kannada by Dinesh Aminmattu at…
Where is our Home? by N A M Ismail It was my belief that similar to tigers, leopards, cats, dogs and wolves the majority of human beings were meat eaters. This had given me an…
Tolerance by Devanuru Mahadeva The ‘touch me not’ words of today are ‘tolerance’ and ‘intolerance’. By connecting purity with untouchability, India became a land of the half living and the half dead. So it may…
No Ram, Jai Bhim! by Harohalli Ravindra The usage of the phrase ‘Loafer Ram’ has become a hotly discussed topic today. The person who used this phrase, a senior professor in the Department of Journalism…
In search of a house to rent: Untouchability and humiliation I experienced today Nagaraj Hettur I have been searching for a house to rent in the Santinagar and Hemavati Nagar area of Hassan for the last…