For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Milind X Before the reader gets on with this essay, I have to say, that I have been admitted to the RINPAS (Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences) wards a total of 4 times over the years. So the reader must assume they’re reading something by a somewhat “sane” person. Additionally, they should ignore …
Monseng Borborua I am Ahom. I am a practitioner of Phuralung, the religion of my ancestors. I was stupid enough to be Hindu before, but I did my “ghar wapsi”, and I hope my Tai brothers would soon too, do a ghar wapsi, back into their original religion instead of following an imported religion. In …
Irshad Ali Naharwad I am writing this on 17th April 2024 when the UPSC CSE final results were announced. The Indian administrative services is my childhood dream, it is the most prestigious job in India with last year’s selection ratio of 0.07%. I left my pre-medical preparation for it, switched from sciences to humanities, and …
Kuldip Chand Dobhetta The day-by-day deteriorating conditions of Dalits living in India, who have been given the names Ati-Shudra, Untouchable, Ad-Dharmi, Moolnivasi, etc. have become a matter of concern. Dalits were identified as oppressed groups during British rule and have been classified as Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in the Indian Constitution. According to the Manuvadi system, …
Samyak Shambharkar In a land of contradictions and paradoxes, where rivers of progress often meet the dams of caste and inequality, Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar envisioned a nation where liberty, equality, and fraternity weren’t just words inscribed on paper but a way of life. He was more than the architect of India’s Constitution; he was …
Milind X There is a tiny essay authored by the French critical theorist Jacques Derrida, the title of which is, The Dangerous Supplement. Derrida proposed in the essay that words or signifiers do not lead to concrete things. Language is a slippery slope where words lead to more words, or more supplements, and the actual …
Vaibhav Kharat An example of ‘Savarna allyship’ can be understood through the digital and virtual interactions with self-proclaimed liberal, secular, progressive friends/peers belonging to Savarna/Dominant caste groups. These interactions manifest in the form of messages, videos, or you tube or news links shared with their Scheduled Caste (SC)/Tribe (ST) acquaintances. For instance, various messages/videos/links are …
Anshul Kumar “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization” This is a popular quote which is attributed to Sigmund Freud but as per Freud Museum’s website, it is a quote by the neurologist Hughlings Jackson.1 But why am I writing about hurling abuse as the basis …
Sindu Deivanayagam December 2nd, 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, a disaster whose devastating impact continues to affect people to this day. This year also marks the first anniversary of the Ennore gas leak. On the night of December 26th 2023, as Ennore was already grappling with the effects of the …