For An Informed Ambedkar Age
K. Satyanarayana The controversy around Ashis Nandy’s casual remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival did not address a number of important questions of public concern. The frenzied ‘Save Nandy’ campaign that followed has actually foreclosed any productive discussion. His supporters have been trying to explain and contextualise Professor Nandy’s flippant remarks through references to …
via Rupali Bansode National Workshop on Caste Violence Against Women: Voices of Victimhood and Voices of Resistance: Jan 25th – 26th
Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (Please read an earlier article in Round Table India by Gee Ameena Suleiman for background information on the brutal eviction of poor residents from EWS quarters in Ejipura, Bengaluru, by the government) The day before yesterday, women and activists screamed as the bulldozers advanced. The intent was single-minded – to raze …
Gee Ameena Suleiman Urban Deprived Communities in Bangalore: Rally to EWS quarters to claim their share in the city and challenge the Corporate Land Grab! Please stand by our brothers and sisters in Ejipura’s EWS quarters in their critical hour of need. In a single day, today, hundreds of their homes have been razed to the ground …
Ambedkar Memorial Lecture – 2013 On ‘Exhumation of Society and Culture in Ancient India’ Speaker: Prof. Nandu Ram (Former Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University) 13th January, Sunday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Convention Centre, Naoroji Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had a deep sense of …
[Via Anji Vikarabad] On December 25th, 2012, students in University of Hyderabad, led by the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA), burnt a copy of the Manusmriti in the campus, which they called the ‘most notorious’, ‘barbaric’ religious text ever produced. 25th December is an auspicious day in the history of Dalitbahujan struggles because it was on …
Dalit-Bahujan Scholars The Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy has signed and forwarded the “expert” recommendations – that tacitly fiddles with the existing norms governing the recruitment and promotion policies of faculty in the Department of Communication, S.N. School – to the UGC. These suggestions, when passed by the UGC and if …
[Via Ravi Chandran] On December 26, 2012, Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam will join hands with all other like minded progressive organizations who are concerned about annihilating caste, and agitate by burning down the Manu Dharma Shastra. Statement by Kolathur Mani: For more than 2000 years, the brahminical Manu Dharma was the one that was controlling …
Condemn the attempt to sabotage UGC norms in faculty recruitment and promotion in Dept. of Communication, S.N.School, University of Hyderabad – Dalit-Bahujan Scholars, Hyderabad ~ Please sign this petition against the expert committee recommendations violating UGC norms in faculty recruitment and promotions at Dept. of Communication, S.N. School, University of Hyderabad, here at change.org. To …