For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Omprakash Mahato The unfortunate attack on CRPF bus by a suicide bomber in Pulwama, causing the death of 42 soldiers and many causalities has shocked not only the people of the country but all the peace-loving people of the world. This act has been strongly condemned by 48 countries and all the political parties. …
Nirban Ray As the 2019 parliamentary election of India is coming near, the idea of India at the same time is becoming more precious. The supposed to be organically antagonistic, oppositional forces – BJP and Congress, the major players of the game of electoral democracy, is coming as it always had been, to a …
Chanchal Kumar Yogesh Maitreya is an assured new voice in dalit English literature. His debut poetry collection “The Bridge of Migration” was published in 2017 by Panther’s Paw Publication. This essay is first in a series I intend to write about his poems from the above mentioned volume. The poem I begin with is …
Sudam Rathod Indian politics for a long time was under the unilateral rule of Congress party because of which other democratic and secular parties could not expand and develop themselves. Secular politics or secularism had been considered the sole property of Congress. Therefore, other such parties with a secular progressive ideology had no space …
Ambedkar King Study Circle Report on ‘What is Fascism and How to Resist it?’, Workshop organized by Ambedkar King Study Circle (AKSC), California, USA The working class should have a clear and in-depth understanding about social and economic conditions in historical context to challenge fascism on its rise. On Feb 23 , Saturday, Ambedkar …
S Kumar The recently passed 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill to provide 10% reservation for savarna castes is certainly problematic due to many reasons. Most importantly, it alters the fundamental basis of reservation, which is mitigating the discrimination based on caste. This article, however, is focused on the beneficiaries of this policy change. The amendment …
Nikhil SanjayRekha Adsule India on 26th Jan 1950 promised its citizens that the country shall be a harbinger of justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity and thus there shall be an era of true democracy in spite of all the contradictions that Babasaheb Ambedkar had warned. Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s recently published book, “My Father’s Garden” makes …
Prashant Ingole Soon after the death of B.R. Ambedkar, the Republican Party of India (RPI), the party which he had imagined as the symbol of Dalit unity in order to achieve the political power, collapsed and fractured into the multiple factions. Dividing the Dalit politicians, the dominant political forces like Congress, Bhartiya Janata Party …
Preshit Ambade When I was an undergraduate student, my friend and I often walked past Dr. Ambedkar’s statue located near our college. We paid homage and giggled, asking “where was he pointing to?”. He was pointing to the West! I would tell my friend that perhaps Dr. Ambedkar wants us to go to the …