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 …
Dehumanized Body: India 2018
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 …
‘Enlighten’, the film: Caste is not an issue, it is reality
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 …
Presenting my leader, Prakash Ambedkar
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 …
Vedanta Prepares To De-list
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 …
Babasaheb’s clear views on the word “Dalit”
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 …
Kerala Flood Relief & Syrian Christian Caste Arrogance (Part 2)
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 …
Does India lack the moral stamina to stop manual scavenging?
Dhamma Darshan Nigam Within eight days, eleven Indian citizens have died in sewers and septic tanks. Five died in a septic tank in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh1 on 16th September. On 14th September a 28 years old man died while cleaning a Delhi Jal Board2 sewer pit. And five died on 9th September 2018 …
The (Profitable) Consequences of Violence in JNU’s Student Politics
Ankit Kawade To respond to the violence of 15th September in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in a dispassionate manner is perhaps uncalled for. We are aware of the pitfalls of demonizing the actions of a political adversary. As much as it drives us to a feeling of horror at what we have seen, we …