For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Samyak Samudre This essay is primarily written for Ambedkarites who either reject or completely embrace Marxism. Karl Marx was a social scientist, economist, and philosopher who was born in 1818. His ideology is commonly referred to as communism. His extensive writings demonstrate his outstanding scholarship. Published in 1867, “Das Kapital” [1] is perhaps his most …
Kuldip Chand Dobhetta The Constitution of India was drafted at a cost of approximately 6 crore rupees, in 2 years, 11 months and 18 days was adopted on 26th November 1949 and came into force on 26th January 1950. The constitution of any country is the pillar of its strength. The Constitution of India is …
Lingaraj Azad Madras High Court Judge G. Jayachandran’s statement about the action choreographer Kanal Kannan’s provocative speech case on Periyar statue in front of Perumal temple at Srirangam in Tamilnadu is based on his religious and caste perspective instead of constitutional and existing criminal jurisprudence. Kanal Kannan is an Indian actor, action choreographer and screen …
Pradnya Garud Catherine Liu, professor of Film and Media Studies at the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, talks to Round Table India about the worsening economic segregation and inequalities in contemporary U.S.A – the dominance of the professional managerial class, and the role of the elite liberal politics in the recent U.S. presidential …
Degree Prasad Chouhan In a diverse country and society like India, where people of the some superior class and caste have been living at the highest peak for thousands of years – in a country like that, post independence and the adoption of the Constitution, it is extremely difficult to get the principles of social …
Sumit Samos Introduction: When we hear the word Dom, it is very often the seminal ethnography “Death in Banaras” by Jonathan Parry (1994) and Niraj Ghaywan’s popular film Masaan that come to our mind. And both of them have dealt with the theme of Doms being the corpse burners in the ghats of Banaras (a …
Bodhi Ramteke The Maharashtra Government’s recent approval of the ‘Chief Minister Tirth Darshan (Pilgrimages) Scheme’ has sparked significant controversy. This initiative provides free pilgrimage services to elderly citizens aged 60 and above. The first batch of pilgrims from Nagpur and Pune departed for Ayodhya on October 10 and 11, 2024, marking the scheme’s official launch. …
Umar Nizar “It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue …
Anitta Anna Moncy “Our motto is still alive and to the point: pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will”, says Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks. Alpa Shah, the author of ‘Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas’ in her new book ‘The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India’ actualizes this …