ललित कुमार (Lalit Kumar) भारत रत्न डा. भीमराव अम्बेडकर का एक प्रसिद्ध कथन है जिस तरह मनुष्य नश्वर हैं. उसी तरह विचार भी नश्वर हैं. एक विचार को प्रचार-प्रसार की ज़रुरत होती है, जैसे कि एक पौधे को पानी की. नहीं तो दोनों मुरझा कर मर जाते हैं.ये इस देश की और खास कर …
Understanding the Intersections of Gender and Caste Discrimination in India
Kamna Sagar The caste framework in India has stood out as the biggest element of social stratifications. Caste, class, and gender are indistinguishably associated, they speak with and overlap each other. Numerous parts of the human condition are profoundly influenced by the stratified examples of the rank framework. Alongside Gender stratifications that characterize numerous …
The Piano Man outrage: Calling out casteist mentality in elite circles
Jyotsna Siddharth Them and Us I, me, mine, we, us, oursYou, them, they, theirs, those people. “It’s just a band name” is what the tombstone should read when the Calgary post-punk band, Viet Cong, finally decides to put the offensive and self-confessed dumb band name to rest. It was those exact words from lead …
‘Perspectives’: Social Experiment or Caste Conservation?
Kanika Sori In February this year, a young Savarna woman from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, created a photo-project that went viral. It was hosted by fifty different kinds of media portals. Recently it was recycled by an e-zine called Storypick for public consumption. Its creator called the album ‘Perspectives,’ and …
Now on Smashwords – What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means To Me
The Shared Mirror Publishing House Our new book What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means To Me is now available on Smashwords – Ebooks from independent authors and publishers The ebook can be downloaded in various formats and also read online, see screenshot below. (https://www.smashwords.com/books/) Enjoy Reading!
Trucked: A Comic
Favita Dias and Anjora Noronha
Ravidas, Thakur arrogance, and the Double Game
Mangesh Dahiwale Judging by the influence and popularity of Ravidas, he was perhaps India’s most influential saint-revolutionary. He stood for the annihilation of caste and his impact reached all over the Hindi belt. The geography he impacted was vast and the society he influenced was diverse and huge. He was the king among the …
क्या भारत सभ्य है?
संजय जोठे (Sanjay Jothe) सोशल साइंस की एक कांफ्रेंस के बाद एक स्विट्जरलैंड के प्रोफेसर मित्र से बात करने का मौका मिला। बैठक के दौरान हमारी बात हो रही थी अलग अलग देशों की समाज व्यवस्था पर, वे मध्यकालीन यूरोप के सामाजिक ताने बाने की बात बता रहे थे। सामाजिक मानवशास्त्र के विशेषज्ञ के …
The difference in being a Babasaheb and a Pandit
Tejaswini Tabhane The following tweet has made all my nerves rebel. I am restless. I am constantly wondering what my identity is. I am not able to digest this hatred. I am surprised how anyone can carry so much hatred in their belly. Many Twitter users, just like me, saw that meme. They moved …