For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Muhammed Shah (Shan) If one reads Usthad Abul A’ala Maududi as an early new historicist of Islam, we can’t find enough reasons to dismiss his arguments. Perhaps the new historicist elements which to some extent are inherent to the Maududian understanding of Islamic historical moments, have created an aura of mysterious controversy around the …
Musafir Baitha Kabir walked this earth almost 600 years ago, and his ideas have had a tremendous impact. Ours was a feudal society back then. The suffocating traditions of the Hindu religion such as caste differences, blind beliefs and superficial rituals had made the lives of the common people miserable. So overwhelming was their …
Abhay Kumar With the UP Assembly Elections (2017) drawing closer, the Hindutva leaders have started shedding tears for Dalits. Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in which he said that one may attack him but not his Dalit brothers, BJP National Executive Member Sanjay Paswan wrote an opinion piece in The Indian Express …
Vidyanand Thombare Rajinikanth’s recent film Kabali has received a great response. Certainly brand Rajani can’t be factored out for this grand reception like most of his erstwhile releases. Does Kabali’s success attribute only to Thalaiva or are there other things too which had connections with this success? Of course Rajinikanth himself carries a Hugovion …
We thank Prof K. Satyanarayana for sharing this note with Round Table India. [Senior Advocate, Poet, Writer, Activist and Public intellectual Shri Bojja Tharakam (77) passed away last night (September 16th) around 10.45 pm in his flat in Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad. He has been under treatment for brain tumour for the last two years. …
Karthik Navayan Bojja Tharakam (1939-2016). From Radical Students Union (RSU), Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF), Scheduled Castes Students’ Federation (SCSF), Ambedkar Yuvajana Sangham (AYS), Rythu Coolie Sangham (RCS – Farm Workers’ Union of which he was an advisor), Republican Party of India to Andhra Pradesh Dalita Mahasabha. From a student leader organising a month long …
ಹಾರೋಹಳ್ಳಿ ರವೀಂದ್ರ (Harohalli Ravindra) ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಂಸ್ಥಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಓಡೆಯರ್ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀರಾವರಿಗೆ ಅತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಪ್ರಾಶಸ್ತ್ಯ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅನೇಕ ಕೆರೆ, ಕಟ್ಟೆ ಕಾಲುವೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು, ಹಲವನ್ನು ದುರಸ್ಥಿಗೊಳಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಪ್ರತಿವರ್ಷ ಒಂದು ಸಾವಿರ ಕೆರೆಗಳನ್ನು ದುರಸ್ಥಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಗುರಿಯನ್ನು ಅಂದು ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಖರ್ಚಿನಲ್ಲಿ 1/3 ಭಾಗವನ್ನು ರೈತರು ನೀಡಿದರೆ, 2/3 ಭಾಗವನ್ನು ಸರ್ಕಾರ ನೀಡಲು ಮುಂದಾಯಿತು. ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಓಡೆಯರ್ ಅವರು ಅತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ರೈತಾಪಿ ಜನರಿಗಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ …
Khalid Anis Ansari Dialogue with BAPSA, JNU: Part One At the outset let me extend my congratulations to BAPSA for the splendid performance in JNUSU elections. In the last few weeks I had tried to follow BAPSA’s JNUSU campaign from social media and other sources closely and had extended my unequivocal moral support. The …
Waseem RS On the Orientalist Savarna Perception of equating SIO with ABVP, of twining SIO with the ghost of Global Islam and the Politics of Social Justice in JNU There is no novelty in the charge of equating SIO and ABVP as the two sides of the same religious ideology. As a Muslim student …