An Appeal to Adivasi-Dalit-Bahujan & International Indigenous Student Community from the Birsaite-Ambedkarite Students & Young Intellectuals of Niyamgiri We, the Adivasi students of Niyamgiri studying in Bhubaneswar as well as other parts of Odisha and the country, want to bring urgent notice to one and all that our homes and families are in grave danger …
Savitribai Phule – A Tribute
Dr. Ratna Panvekar Savitribai was born in an era when the social structure was inhuman and women did not have any scope for education or other freedoms. Savitribai was born at Naigaon, Taluka Khandala, district Satara, on 3rd January 1831. Her mother’s name was Lakshmibai and her father was a Patil of that village and …
To Your Caste Blindness
Dhamma Darshan Nigam This is for those social activists and political analysts who always feel the burden of justice on their shoulders and shout on the streets for democracy, but never make an iota of effort to see caste even once in their imaginations. When they cannot imagine caste then caste based inequalities and …
Economic criteria in reservation: An invitation to counter-revolution
Suresh Mane Rahul Gaikwad: Sir, I would like to know, in the present context, the implications of 10% reservations that is being given to the upper castes and how this particular kind of reservation come about? Dr. Mane: To understand the Reservation policy, one needs to have a comprehensive understanding. When I …
Secularism, Democracy and Economics
Sanket Vinayak Waghmare There’s no doubt that we are very fortunate to be in a democratic nation like India. But still, we always complain about the Government, Nation & Society. We never praise or utilize the benefits of what we already have, that’s none other than the Constitution of the nation. If you seek firmly, …
Thinking about perspectives from below
Neeraj Bunkar This is an attempt to think about perspectives that have been affecting children and other oppressed sections of society. Sometimes we don’t care about the language that we use for others but it may hurt or demoralize them. I will deal with some popular words that most people use in their daily …
Buddha Opposed War
Jitendra Suna Buddha opposed war, therefore he was exiled as a punishment; the narrative that he left home for enlightenment is a myth While speaking on a Buddha Jayanti in New Delhi on 30th April 2018, Narendra Modi has said: जिबित बो है जो ध्वंस और हिंसा और घृणा से अपने बिरोधी पर हमला …
Why not economic basis for women’s reservation and other questions
Ila Gaikwad “Silence is a powerful weapon”. We have all agreed to this. Even if we’ve hated Gandhi, by virtue of him having favoured either the RSS ideology or other beliefs, at one point or the other in our lives we’ve felt that non-violence is a powerful holistic weapon. And yet, we clearly assert — …
Anjana Pawar speaks at VBA assembly
Dr. Dhammasangini Ramagorakh #Woman from Pardhi community spoke in VBA assembly at Malinagar#We are also human beings, take us into your fold#Don’t we belong to India? On 3rd of February 2019, there was a Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi gathering at Malinagar; a small town in Solapur district. We (Sheetal Sathe and I), were talking amongst …