For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Lalit Kumar On July 24, 2016, the news of an attack on peacefully demonstrating dalits of ‘Youth for Buddhist India’ by some ‘Singh Sena’ activists, or should one call them goons of upper strata of orthodox Hindu society, was reported on some sites such as National Dastak and Round Table India. But it was …
Dharmaraj Kumar “What has happened to dalits? Why have they become so violent? They are getting reservation through constitution in everything, what else do they want now?” was the concern of one of my friends. I had nothing to say in reply as it would have amounted to a provoked answer given in haste. To …
Gurinder Azad Dalits of Gujarat have set an example by replying in their own assertive way to the brutality done on four dalit youth who were carrying a dead cow. They have denounced their ‘traditional’ occupation as a revolt against the Brahminical system. A march has been organised from Ahmedabad to Una where the …
Jadumani Mahanand The current scenario of Indian society is deeply volatile and violent, instigating gruesome and brutal attacks on Dalits and Muslims. Any concerned citizen will feel anger and frustration, reading everyday about the violence, rape and killings of minorities such as Dalits and Muslims. No method has been left unused, to theorize or …
Rajesh Chandra Kumar “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” ~ Nelson Mandela. “For want of education their intellect deteriorated, for want of intellect their morality decayed, for want of morality their progress stopped, for want of progress their wealth vanished. All their sorrows sprang from illiteracy”. ~ Mahatma Jotiba …
Dhrubo Jyoti I work with a major mainstream media house in the national capital, one that has hundreds of employees but no diversity policy, that ensures almost all journalists are drawn from urban, dominant-caste backgrounds. This is an irritant on most days but the effect of this on reportage has been particularly galling during …
Kiruba Munusamy On 8th July 2016, Piyush Manush – who claims to be an environmentalist – and two others, were arrested in Salem, Tamil Nadu, for protesting against the construction of a flyover in Salem. It is alleged that the construction took place without acquiring land at the said location of the project. From …
Kshirod Nag The dictionary meaning of the very term ‘intolerance’ is ‘unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, behavior that differs from one’s own. One is categorized as ‘intolerant’ when s/he does not accept views, beliefs, and behaviors of others, precisely because the later differ with the former. Undoubtedly, we have been witnessing this similar attitude …
Round Table India #Caste is not a rumour: The online diary of Rohith Vemula is a collection of Mr. Vemula’s online writing. The book, which is over 40,000 words, includes most of his Facebook posts. The books carries his views on a gamut of issues including politics and academics. His online account is a …