Features
Social Smuggling: Prof. Kancha IIaiah Shepherd's mirror to society
Raju Chalwadi Prof. Kancha IIaiah Shepherd is a renowned political scientist and an anti-caste activist. He is one of the fiercest critics of the Hindu social order and caste system in present times. He stands apart from his contemporaries in two respects: first, unlike other well-known critics of Castes and the Hindu social order, he is an intellectual-cum-activist who does not believe in sitting within the four walls of his office...
Read moreAn urban adivasi’s perspective on Newton
Nolina Minj India's official entry to the Oscars, Newton has done well for itself in the box-office. Critics have described it as 'brilliant, subversive and one of the finest political satires we have seen in the last couple of years.' With all this acclaim, I was curious to watch the movie, especially as its selling point was its setting in the Maoist-ridden forests of Dandakaranya, Chhattisgarh. I wonder what criteria lays the...
Read moreDeekshabhumi: School for Commoners
Mahipal Mahamatta and Adhvaidha K “Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu”, Babasaheb proclaimed in the speech delivered at Yeola in 1936. His decision was the culmination of inequality, inferiority and inhuman treatment given by Hindu religion to fellow human beings. In the modern cultural history, nothing could be a more revolutionary decision than this. Babasaheb made us realize that Hindu religion is the...
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Zambian farmers win against Vedanta in UK
Zambian farmers win against Vedanta in UK
Chalo Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar!
Chalo Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar!
Rohingyas and Origins of the Caste System
Rohingyas and Origins of the Caste System
Umar Nizar
How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called...
Dalit writing doesn’t belong to trash bin– An open letter to Dr. J. Devika
Dalit writing doesn’t belong to trash bin– An open letter to Dr. J. Devika
Statement condemning attacks on Prof Kancha Ilaiah by Brahmanical forces
Statement condemning attacks on Prof Kancha Ilaiah by Brahmanical forces
Perspective
Morimoto Kazuo
The world today is home to a great number of putative lineal descendants—and collateral relatives—of Muḥammad, the Prophet of Islam. Let us begin by sharing three recent episodes involving some of these kinsfolk of the Prophet.
Episode I: The film Close-Up (1990) by the reno [ ... ]
Rights
Deepak Kumar & Rajeshwar Names of the Victims: Maggidi Buchhamma, 70 years, and her daughter Maggidi Manga. Dominant Caste Culprits: Baltha Rajamouli and his son and Allam Ravi. When: 23rd July 2017, Sunday, morning. Where: Rendlaguda (Mandapally), Jannaram Mandal, Manch [ ... ]
Read Full Story- Amnesty International: Scheduled Tribes Panel Order on Unlawful Land Transfers is Welcome
- Fact Finding Report on Police Excesses in Nadukuppam Village, Marina Beach
- The Long Exit: Conferences of the Depressed Classes During the 1930s
- Judicial Discourse and Caste Violence
- Threatening Indian democratic system: Case of Anti-Defection Law
Educate, Agitate, Organize
Ratnesh Katulkar Continued from here. It was during the Mauryan period, particularly at the time of Asoka, that India reached its zenith. There was an advanced stage of development in the field of architecture (which is visible in the remains of the Asokan inscriptions), science and techno [ ... ]
Read Full StoryDr. 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 [ ... ]
Read Full StoryDalitbahujan Renaissance
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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