For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Adhvaidha K Pariyerum Perumal is a recently released Tamil movie directed by Mari Selvaraj and produced by director Pa. Ranjith’s Neelam Productions. The film by upholding anti-caste politics and Ambedkarite ideology was well-received by Tamil audience. After a long wait, I went onto watch the film but ended up being disappointed, as I felt, …
Satvendar Madara On 9th October 2006, when the sad news of Saheb Kanshi Ram’s death reached his well-wishers throughout India and abroad, several questions rose in their minds. The glorious heights he took the caravan of Babasaheb Ambedkar–what will be its future? As, after the demise of Babasaheb on 6th December 1956, his movement …
Jyoti Nisha What’s common between the fisherman’s son Parshya from Nagraj Manjule’s film Sairat, and the real life of a 24-year-old Pranay, a Bahujan from Mala community from Telangana, Hyderabad who was hacked to death in front of his 21-year-old pregnant wife who belonged to the Komati caste (who claim to be Vaishya), an …
Radhika Sudhakar (Translated by Lincy K Thankappan.) തമിഴ് രാഷ്ട്രീയ മണ്ഡലത്തിലെ തെരെഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ ആറ് ദശാബ്ദക്കാലവും അതിനും മുൻപ് ദ്രാവിഡ പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളെ ശക്തിപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന രാഷ്ട്രീയ പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിലും തുടങ്ങി പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ ,രാഷ്ട്രീയ ഭരണം ,സാഹിത്യം ,സിനിമ അങ്ങനെ ചവിട്ടിയ മേഖലകളിലെല്ലാം കാലുനീട്ടി വെച്ച ഒരു യഥാർത്ഥ അതികായൻ ആയിരുന്നു മുതുവേൽ കരുണാനിധി. പൂർത്തിയാക്കിയ പ്രഖ്യാപിത നയങ്ങളേക്കാൾ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ ഇച്ഛയായിരുന്നു മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയായിരുന്ന അഞ്ചുതവണയും രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിലെ മുക്കാൽ ഭാഗത്തിലേറെയും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ഭരണ രീതിയെ അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നത്. 1957 മുതലങ്ങോട്ടുള്ള …
Mohammad Imran The recently conducted rally in Aurangabad by Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, in which the alliance between Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh and Assaduddin Owaisi led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen was formally announced was a much debated political move in Maharashtrian politics. The alliance was made on the ground that it has an ability to speak …
Sthabir Khora Rudolf von Jhering as a reaction to Puchta contrasted “jurisprudence in the air,” with “jurisprudence of realities.” Drawing from Savigny’s connection between law and other aspects of social life he construed that law had been produced by efforts to realize a social purpose. Such a purpose was always practical. Law had then …
Sushma Gumpenapalli India is a nation-state infested with ‘the caste system’, a rigid social order peculiar to Indian social geography. It is a land of divisions, strata based on various social affiliations. But caste is a stratification that has become an impediment for integration, collective development of the Indian society. Any blanket term that …
Vishal Thakare When India became independent in 1947, there were two important opinions about Idea of India by two contrasting but very powerful personalities namely Dr. Ambedkar and Gandhi. Gandhi was advocating the idea of ‘Gram Rajya’ (In other words Ram Rajya too) and was of the opinion that India should not be built on …
Ambedkar King Study Circle Progressive organizations in San Francisco bay area had come together to commemorate the 140th birth anniversary of Periyar E.V Ramasamy in Cupertino, California, USA on Sep 22, Saturday. Around 80 people with families and kids attended the program to remember the legendary social reformer Periyar. Dr Vaa Geetha, who addressed …