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Toilet: Ek Prem Katha - Women's Liberation through the Manusmriti?
Obed Manwatkar Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is a movie produced by Reliance Entertainment owned by Mr. Ambani, one of the main corporate sponsors of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The theme of the movie is fine, since toilets are everyone's need, but the problem occurs when it gives illogical solutions. In this film, Akshay Kumar plays the character Keshav, a modern Brahmin man who knows the Manusmriti (the law book of Hinduism/Brahminism) by...
Read moreThe Importance Of Having An Ambedkarite Family
Tejaswini Tabhane Last month I read an article "Some of us will have to fight all our lives: Anoop Kumar"1 on Round Table India where Anoop Sir talked about how students from marginalized sections of our society are asked many uncomfortable questions about their identity in higher educational institutions and how growing up in an Ambedkarite family can help them to tackle this identity crisis. Coming from an Ambedkarite family of...
Read moreIndia and its contradictions
Raju Chalwadi This August 15th marked the completion of 70 years of Independence. The preamble of the constitution way back in 1950 defined India as a place where Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity will prevail and more specifically a place where oppressed sections will live a life with dignity. But, looking at the current condition any learned person can say that we have failed terribly in attaining the goal of just...
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From Brahmanisation to Privatisation: The Case of Tata Institute of Social Sciences
From Brahmanisation to Privatisation: The Case of Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Global Day of Action against Vedanta at their AGM
Global Day of Action against Vedanta at their AGM
When erasure from memory is also a human rights violation
When erasure from memory is also a human rights violation
Conference on The Scourge of Scavenging: Revisiting the Question of Sanitation/Scavenging/Scavengers
Date: 08-Nov-2017 to 10-Nov-2017
Event Type: National Seminar
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Dalit studies: Human Dignity, Equality and Democracy
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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