For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Pranjali Kureel (Students of TISS, Mumbai recently elected Bhatta Ram as the new President of the student council in what is being called a ‘historic win’. Inspiring hundreds of students like me, who enter this institute with high hopes, only to find ourselves in an elite and daunting space, Bhatta Ram says the main aim …
Rajesh Rajamani Introduction There is a prevalent tendency among film critics and even audience to classify a movie as feminist just because it has a female actor playing the lead role. So when Rathna Kumar’s Aadai starring Amala Paul released recently, there were similar expectations. Also, since the movie was titled ‘Aadai’ …
Krittika Aveira Mondal, Deeksha Rahul, Deepak Kumar, Surendra Wankhede, Archana Rahul Khupte, Vruttant Manwatkar and Piyush Kant We are concerned about the growing problem of the commercialization of the Ambedkarite movement. This problem is of selling of victimhood in the name of “Radical Dalitism”, and the pessimism regarding the revolutionary and radical nature of the …
Pranjali Kureel May we tell our children about our history, our family histories that our ancestors were treated worse than animals were denied basic dignity and that it still hasn’t changed much. May we tell our children that the histories they read in school are conveniently manipulated and distorted to extend the propaganda of those …
Piyush Kant The question of depicting caste or its lack/invisibility thereof in the Hindi mainstream cinema has been a longstanding puzzle for many generations of viewers and critics. Recently Article 15 became one of those rare movies that ended up generating extreme sentiments of hurt equally on either side of the caste divide. Like his …
Dnyanda Lad and Ajay Rahulwad Introduction Discrimination and exclusion on the basis of caste and gender have a natural effect on mental health of students. Many suicides have been committed in colleges in the last few years. Payal Tadvi, Rohith Vemula and many more individual Dalit students have been victims of these exclusionary institutional …
Md Tabrez Alam India—a country of a population of more than a billion people—stands as the largest democratic nation in the world, with a large diversity amongst its different states and union territories. It has so much diversity of culture, language, religion, caste, ethnicity, etc. that except for democracy no other system of governance …
Nikhil SanjayRekha Adsule “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” – Harriet Tubman In this post-truth era, where democratic and participatory ethos …
Vruttant Manwatkar It has now been quite a few days since the demise of Raja Dhale, a Revolutionary Leader of the movement of Justice, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. His death suddenly brought back a plethora of critical developments in the form of intimate memories associated with him. My pen wouldn’t have forgiven my mind …