For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Amiya Ranjan Jena On 13 May 2018, Krushna Chandra Sagaria, the Member of Legislative Assembly of Odisha from Koraput constituency embraced Buddhism along with 55 families in his ancestral village Burja under Laxmipur block of Koraput district. Around 3000 people across Koraput, Kalahandi and Bolangir district had attended the two day run Dhamma Kranti ceremony …
Satvender Madara In the last two centuries, in many parts of India, struggles started against the thousands of year old Brahmanical Caste System. In Eastern India, it was led by Harichand and Guruchand Thakur, by Phule-Shahu-Ambedkar in Western India, in the North by Babu Mangu Ram, Swami Achutanand and in the South by Narayana …
Shashi Bhushan The Rajendra Agricultural University located in Bihar’s Pusa is known for its excellence in education. It was established in the year 1970 and later granted the status of a central university in the year 2016. The university is now known as Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University(DRPCAU). But, I will not talk here …
Mohammad Imran Abstract: The Ghosi community, traditionally associated with milking and herding, today faces unexpected challenges and is struggling to maintain its traditional occupation and livelihood. Earlier, mounting inflation and the increased cost of fodder and cattle maintenance were the issues troubling the community, but the recent socio-political context of ‘Gau Raksha’ (Cow Vigilantism) …
Name of the Film – Ambedkarite Artist KadubaiDirector – Omey AnandArt/Creative Head – Aniket MohiteResearch Head – Prashant Usha VijaykumarDOP – Omileelansh and AbhishekLight – Sagar Pakale Kadubai Kharat is Dalit folk artist who lives in Aurangabad, Maharastra. She sings songs of Babasaheb in various Dalit localities in Aurangabad and runs her family. Kadubai …
Jadumani Mahanand This is in continuation to my previous piece on “Only Manuwadi Hindutva gang can burn Indian Constitution”. This short write-up takes a case from South-Western Odisha to explicate Constitution Awareness Campaign programme. Some intellectual activists from SC, ST, OBCs, and religious minority communities – SSA Team (Sambidhan Sachetanata Abhiyan) of Odisha decided …
Akash Sable Summary: Bhima Koregaon is a historical site, it has witnessed nearly 200 years ago in 1818 on the very first day of the year, a huge Peshwa force defeated by a small troop of British army constituting of a majority of soldiers from the Mahar community. This history has been memorialized through …
വിജു വി.വി യേശുദാസിന്റെ ഗാനജീവിതത്തെ അതര്‍ഹിക്കുന്ന സാംസ്‌കാരികവും സാമൂഹ്യവുമായ പ്രാധാന്യത്തോടെ നാം വിലയിരുത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ടോ? മലയാളിയുടെ ദൈനംദിന ജീവിതത്തിലും പൊതുമണ്ഡലത്തിലും അദ്ദേഹം നടത്തിയ ഇടപെടലുകളും അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തലുകളും ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളാനോ അതിനെ മുന്നോട്ടുകൊണ്ടുപോകാനോ നമുക്ക് കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ടോ? കൊളോണിയല്‍ കാലത്തും അനന്തരവും ഉണ്ടായ സാമൂഹ്യപരിഷ്‌കരണ മുന്നേറ്റങ്ങളുടെയും പിന്നീടുണ്ടായ ദേശീയ ആധുനികതയുടെയും ആശയപരിസരങ്ങള്‍ വികസ്വരമാക്കുന്നതിലും നവീനമായ മലയാളിസ്വത്വം നിര്‍മിച്ചെടുക്കുന്നതിലും ചലച്ചിത്രഗാനങ്ങളുടെ സ്വാധീനം ചെറുതായിരുന്നില്ല. അത് ഏറെയും യേശുദാസ് എന്ന ഗായകനെ കേന്ദ്രീകരിച്ചായിരുന്നു. എങ്കിലും സിനിമാഗാനമേഖലയെയോ അതിന്റെ ജനസ്വാധീനത്തെയോ നാം കാര്യമായ സാംസ്‌കാരികാന്വേഷണങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് വിധേയമാക്കിയിട്ടില്ല. അതേസമയം, …
S Kumar This article is not written to instigate people to violence or break the law in any sense. The purpose of this article is to rethink before celebrating 26th November as Constitution Day and blindly call it Ambedkar’s Constitution. To calm the minds of people after reading the heading, I would like …