For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Moti Ram Mensa Dishonourable Kothari ji, Jai Bharat. Early in the morning nobody wishes to spoil his entire day but today, by expressing your narrow minded hatred-filled ideas, you tried to spoil the entire day of Bahujans of the country. But when you read my reply, your evening would certainly be spoiled. While writing …
Murali Ramathoti The upcoming student union elections at the University of Hyderabad once again prove that Rohith Vemula was correct when he said “No left, no liberal left, and no radical left stand by the oppressed people of India”. These elections are crucial for BJP government as it wants to create bastions in all …
Adv. Mahendra Jadhav This is a reply to Prof. M.L. Garasiya’s post (dated 27.11.2015) ‘Sanvidhan me Kyu nahi diya gaya “Adivasi” shabd ko Sthan/Mahatva?’ (Why the word “Adivasi” was not given importance/place in the Constitution of India?) A few days ago, I received a Whatsapp message from one of my friends who stays in …
Tuhin Bhattacharjee “If you wish to bring about a breach in the system, then you have got to apply the dynamite to the Vedas and the Shastras, which deny any part to reason; to the Vedas and Shastras, which deny any part to morality. You must destroy the religion of the shrutis and the …
A.K.D. Jadhav Chetan Bhagat’s article “Creaming the People” (TOI October 3, 2015) is a piece with the general stream of thinking in educated upper middle class India. In terms of its response to the genesis and consequences of reservations this stream of thinking is based on certain fundamental but fallacious assumptions regarding the raison …
Prof. P. Kesava Kumar Bojja Tharakam (1939-2016), a Dalit leader of high eminence, passed away on 17th September 2016. He was a well-known Dalit leader with multiple facets to his personality. He left his mark on most of the democratic struggles of Telugu society in post independence India. He was a people’s leader, civil …
Sardar Ajmer Singh This article is an excerpt from S. Ajmer Singh’s book “Biswi Sadi Ki Sikh Rajneeti: Ek Ghulami Se Dusri Ghulami Tak” (The Sikh Politics of the 20th Century: From One Slavery to Another) On the circumstances emerging after the partition of Punjab, and the creation of a Self-ruled Sikh state After …
ಡಾ. ಸಬಿತಾ ಬನ್ನಾಡಿ (Sabitha Bannadi) ಅದೊಂದು ಬಡವರಿಗೆ ಕೈಗಾಡಿ ವಿತರಿಸುವ ಸಮಾರಂಭ. ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯೇ ಖುದ್ದಾಗಿ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಬಡವರಿಗೆ ಕೈಗಾಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ವಿತರಿಸಿದ ಅವರು ಆ ಕೈಗಾಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿಕೊಂಡು ತಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನ ಮಟ್ಟವನ್ನು ಸುಧಾರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಂತೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಅವರು ಹೇಳುವ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಮಾಮೂಲೀ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿಯ ಮಾತಿನಂತೆ ಇರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಬದಲಿಗೆ ಮನೆಯ ಹಿರಿಯನೊಬ್ಬ ಆಡುವ ಕಳಕಳಿಯ ಮಾತಿನಂತೆ ಅನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇಂತಹ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಆ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಗೆ ಜನರ ಕುರಿತಾಗಿ ಇರುವ ಕಳಕಳಿಯೂ ಆಗಿ ಧ್ವನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. “ಈ …
Dr. P. Kesava Kumar ‘I don’t know when I was born/but I was killed on this very soil thousand years ago/ ‘dying again and again to be born again’/ I don’t know the karma theory/I am being born again and again where I was dead.’1 ~ Kalekuri Prasad History!/ all these years how could …