[Via Shanker Sampangi] Telangana Students’ Association (TSA) and Dalit Information and Education Trust (DIET) Cordially invite you for a Talk on “African American and Dalit Studies: Reflection on life narratives” to be delivered by Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Venue: Conference Hall, Administrative Building, EFL-University, Hyderabad. On Friday, 14th December, 2012, at …
Demonstration For Reservation in Promotion To OBCs & Separate Ministry For OBCs
Demonstration Before Parliament For Reservation in Promotion To OBCs & Separate Ministry For OBCs [Via Ashok Yadav] On December 05, 2012, Wednesday, 10.00 am to 01.00 pm. Jantar Mantar, Parliament Street, New Delhi.
Dalit Sthree Sakthi’s Campaign for Dalit Women and Children’s Rights
Dalit Sthree Sakthi, Andhra Pradesh, is organizing a Dalit Women and Children’s Rights Campaign (Hakkula Chaitanya Yatra) with a 80 member contingent for 10 days on the ‘Rights of Dalit Women and Girl Children’ starting from Ambedkar Statue, Tank Bund, Hyderabad, on 6th December and ends on 15th December at Lakshimpeta of Srikakulam District. During this …
Prof. Shrawan Deore’s ‘OBC nchya Sangharsh Wata’: Book Release Function
[Via Satyashodhak Chhatrapati Dnyanpith] Prof. Shrawan Deore‘s new book ‘OBC nchya Sangharsh Wata‘ (‘Battle Streets of OBCs‘) shall be released: on 4th December, 2012, 3 p.m., at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Azad Maidan, Opp. CST/ VT station, Mumbai. All are cordially invited.
R u p t u r e s: South Asian Islam and the Caste Question
[Organized by The Patna Collective] Venue: Conference Room No. 1 (Main Building), India International Centre, New Delhi December 1-2, 2012. Conference ScheduleSATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 (DAY ONE)9:00 am: Opening Session Registration Welcome and Introduction by The Patna Collective Conversation One—Caste and Islam: Conceptual Approaches in Social Sciences Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad, Formerly Professor of Political …
Dharmapuri Burning: Letter to National Television Channels
Please send the letter posted below to all the National Television Channels mentioned (by inserting your name in the place of the sender) and share and circulate it widely. [Via P. Dayanandan] ~~ To: Times of India, vivek.narayan@timesgroup.com; info@timesnow.tv; CNN-IBN, editor@ibnlive.com; Headlines Today, info@aajtak.com; NDTV, feedback@ndtv.com; CC to: Justice Markandey Katju; justicekatju@gmail.com Dear Sirs, We are writing to you …
Chalo Delhi: Dalit-Adivasi Sammelan
Chalo Delhi: Dalit-Adivasi Sammelan [Via Asha Kowtal & Abhay Xaxa] On 23rd November, 2012, From 9 a.m., till 3 p.m. Nation-wide campaign to give a call to end Untouchability and Atrocities by enforcement and amendments to SC/ST PoA Act. Ramleela MaidanNew Delhi, India 110006
Dalit Women Elected Representatives: Towards Greater Assertion and Power
[Via Asha Kowtal] From Sunday, from 12:00 p.m., until Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. A series of programmes are being organized by All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) in association with National Mission on Empowerment of Women (NMEW), with the aim of promoting Dalit women’s leadership to effectively engage in political spheres in conjunction with her …
The ‘Myth’ in Mythology
Twish Mukherjee (This guest article tries to understand the protests by Bahujan students in JNU and other universities over Durga Puja and the demonizing of Mahisha and other Dalitbahujan personalities in Brahmanic mythology. These protests picked up steam around a year ago in JNU, and this article in Round Table India had covered the protests …