For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Aslah Vadakara and Shaharbanu CP Before saying anything about the “Willuwandi”, the musical band, we need to talk about a great event in Dalit history in Kerala, which could better explain the name of this music band-Willuwandi. The Public Works Department in Kerala was started in the 1860s in Travancore.The foreign engineer proposed to …
तनुजा हरड (Tanuja Harad) मार्च २०१७ मध्ये बिहारमधील पूर्णिया जिल्ह्यातील रमावतीदेवी या दलित महिलेला जिवंत जाळले गेले.१ तिच्या शेजाऱ्यांना असा संशय होता की ती भूतबाधा करते. ७ आॅगस्ट २०१७ या दिवशी भागापुर, बिहारमध्ये फूल कुमारी देवी या महिलेचा मृतदेह रेल्वे रूळांवर आढळून आला.२ ती भूताली आहे या संशयावरून तिच्या मारेकऱ्यांनी तिला तिच्या राहत्या घरातून …
Sufi Ghulam Hussain There is abundant literature on Dalit/Dalitbahujan ideology that is being consumed in academia globally; however, the mainstreaming of Dalitbahujan theory is yet to take place. The empirical studies on Dalitbahujans are increasingly becoming the subject of study and curricula in different universities in India, such that the emergence and subsequent receptivity of …
Dharmaraj Kumar Indian judiciary system is said to be confronted with a crisis of judicial accountability following the alleged contemptuous act of Prashant Bhushan in the Supreme Court, that too in the face of Hon’ble Judge Dipak Misra, the Chief Justice of India. This incident is taken as a serious threat to the …
Sachin Garud It is a well-known fact that at the time of India’s national movement, there was another movement known as the movement of social engineering or social revolution, led by Mahatma Phule, who had pioneered the foundation of a social revolution in India. Although contemporary thinkers like Ram Mohan Roy, Justice M.G. Ranade …
Bhakti Deodhar (Book review of Becoming minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce minorities in Europe and India, edited by Jyotirmay Tripathi and Sudarshan Padmanabhan, New Delhi, Sage Publications 2014.) At a time when its attitude towards internal and external religious minorities poses an intractable predicament for the Indian government in the gaze of the …
Tejas Harad In 2016, famous Indian author Chetan Bhagat published a novel called One Indian Girl. This book was criticised by some women because the book’s narrator, who is also its protagonist, is a woman. Bhagat, even though a man, is within his rights to have a woman narrator in his novel. But it …
Rahul Pagare The government of Maharashtra declared 7th of November to be celebrated as Students’ Day on the occasion of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s first day of school entry, back in 1900 AD. Today 117 years have been completed after this historic step. His school’s name was Chhatrapati Pratap Singh High School, which is located …
Karthick RM “Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power.”-Michel Foucault “What is a village but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?”-BR Ambedkar From the time when reports of social media …