For An Informed Ambedkar Age
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 …
Vishal Verma JNU students have elected their students’ union for the year 2018-19, the Left unity (AISA-DSF-SFI-AISF) swept all four seats in the central panel, with most of the school councillor seats. In the Left camp while people are celebrating the victory of record margin, the worry part of the story is ABVP still …
Priyadarshini Ohol requests the pleasure of your company at || Dehumanized Body : India 2018 ||Kolkata Opening at the Academy of Fine Arts, North Galleryon 2nd October, 2018 at 5:30 pmfollowed by tea Butoh Live ArtEveryday 6 – 6:30pmAudience is Invited to Participate On View 2-8 October 3-8 pm 2, Cathedral Road, Maidan Kolkata …
Round Table India Name of the Film – EnlightenDirection – Omey M AnandCamera – ShardulEditing – Jameer Attar ‘Enlighten’, is a short film based on three basic issues faced by the current generation. And the basic origin of conflict between dalit castes. When the leadership of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar emerged in India, every …
Mahipal Mahamatta There are mainly four dominant political parties–Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)–in Maharashtra. It is conventional to consider the first two parties as secular and the other two as communal and non-secular parties. Today, the dominant electronic media serves the interests of above mentioned parties by allowing …
Damning Report Blames City Of London As Vedanta Prepares To De-list Foil Vedanta • Damning report on Vedanta’s operations released. MPs take note.• Protests at AGM as Vedanta de-lists.• FCA headquarters targeted as responsible for corporate crimes. Foil Vedanta* and a coalition of organisations have released a damning report ‘Vedanta’s Billions: Regulatory failure, environment and …
Satvendar Madara There is a controversy raging around the term “Dalit” for quite some time. The intellectual community of the Scheduled Castes in India and abroad is extremely divided on this issue and arguments are made in its favour and against. Recently, the Government of India issued an order to the media to not …
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes This is a transcript of the second video in the series of interviews Dalit Camera had documented in Kerala on the flood relief operations. The video was taken by Dr. Ravichandran Bathran; the translation was done by Mrudula Bhavani. {youtube}s-yb2zKJ2WM{/youtube} Interviewer: Can you tell us about the caste porridge …