For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Shivani Waldekar Before starting to write my words I want to give one disclaimer here that whatever I am writing comes from my personal lived experience, so if anyone is hurt because of that, I apologise. If you are unable to digest the facts and thoughts I hereby state, please feel free to build your …
Shiveshwar Kundu B.R. Ambedkar has become an omnipresent character of Indian politics. He is everywhere, darling of almost every spectrum of the mainstream, local as well as student politics. The irony of the churning is that the exact forces against whom Ambedkar himself waged war during his lifetime are now trying to appropriate his …
Auwn Gurmani Babasaheb Ambedkar in his book Annihilation of Caste says: “I have no hesitation in saying that if the Mahomedan has been cruel, the Hindu has been mean; and meanness is worse than cruelty”. I’d add, the context may be different today, but, nonetheless, there is a cruelty amongst Mahomedans that cannot be …
Jai Bhim!! My name is Jyoti Nisha. I am an independent Bahujan Writer/Documentary Filmmaker based in Mumbai. For the last two and half years I have been working on a feature length documentary film, ‘B. R. Ambedkar Now and Then.’ I am writing this to you to share with you a crowd funding campaign …
Bobby Kunhu “Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…. Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.” – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Each time the DBA communities assert their political rights and manage to gain something, the savarnas find a way to subvert …
Dr. Sylvia Karpagam Animals in the domestic animal kingdom were going through an economic crisis that was putting their very survival at risk. There was just not enough food to go around, water was scarce and contaminated, the air was polluted and leading to health problems, children were just not getting what they deserved. …
Rajanikanta Gochhayat Is the latest quota move by the NDA government led by BJP an issue of group representation of the upper castes or an electoral strategy before the 2019 general election? It is both the ‘politics of presence’ and ‘electoral strategies’, bringing some inputs to the reservation debate too. The ‘politics of presence’ talks …
Arpita Jaya Invisible Men: Inside India’s Transmasculine Network, and its author Nandini Krishnan’s remorseless responses to the serious objections raised by quite a few transmen and transwomen activists, is yet another page in the genre of ‘sweet-tempered liberal’ transphobia.These volumes of academic and non-fiction literature produced in India, which while claiming to depict the …
Baragur Ramachandrappa ‘ಧಾರವಾಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ’ 18, 19, 20 ಜನವರಿ 2019 ಬರಗೂರು ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರಪ್ಪ ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆಶಯ ಭಾಷಣ ‘ಧಾರವಾಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ’ ಆರಂಭವಾದಾಗ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರಿಗೆ ಹಾಕಿದ ಕೆಲವು ಅನುಚಿತ ಷರತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ನಾನು ವಿರೋಧಿಸಿದ್ದೆ. ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಗಳು ಶಸ್ತ್ರಾಸ್ತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ತರಬಾರದೆಂದು ಹಾಕಿದ ಷರತ್ತು ಸಾಂಸ್ಕøತಿಕ ಲೋಕವನ್ನು ಅನುಮಾನಿಸುವುದಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಅವಮಾನಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಇಂತಹ ಷರತ್ತು ಸಲ್ಲದೆಂದು ನಾನಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವರು ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಆನಂತರ ಇಂತಹ ಅನುಚಿತ ಷರತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೈಬಿಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಶ್ರೀ ಗಿರಡ್ಡಿ ಗೋವಿಂದರಾಜು ಅವರು …