For An Informed Ambedkar Age
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 has been introduced by the Government in Lok Sabha this session. While we have all been waiting for legislation for protection of trans rights, this draft bill is a massively diluted, criminalizing and pathologising text while standing on distorted premises that amount to human rights violations. In fact, …
B. Prabakaran Last month, before Kabali was released, some Dalits in Tamil Nadu posted a merged picture on Facebook, which had Dr. Ambedkar, in his usual pride and impressive posture, on the one side and actor Rajnikanth on the other side. I responded to them, “Do not compare Rajinikanth with Ambedkar”. They replied “Rajini seems …
ರಘೋತ್ತಮ ಹೊಬ (Raghothama Hoba) ಕಳೆದ ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಹಾರದ ಸಾರನಾಥದಿಂದ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಯಾತ್ರೆಯೊಂದು ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆ ಆಗಿತ್ತು. ಹೆಸರು “ಧಮ್ಮ ಚೇತನಾ ಯಾತ್ರೆ”. ಖಂಡಿತ ಅದು ಬೌದ್ಧ ಧರ್ಮದ ಯಾತ್ರೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. “ಮೋದಿ ಮಾಂಕ್ಸ್” ಅಥವಾ “ಮೋದಿ ಭಿಕ್ಕುಗಳು” ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಭಿಕ್ಕು ಧಮ್ಮ ವಿರಿಯೊ ಮುಂದಾಳತ್ವ ದ ಭಿಕ್ಕುಗಳ ಗುಂಪು ಈ ಯಾತ್ರೆಯ ನೇತೃತ್ವ ವಹಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಮೋದಿ ಸಾಧನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಗಳುವುದು, ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮೋದಿಯ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಚುರಪಡಿಸುವುದು ಉತ್ತರಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಉದ್ದಗಲಕ್ಕೂ ಹಾದುಹೋಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಈ ಯಾತ್ರೆಯ …
Jyotsna Siddharth When Dalits are beaten up mercilessly with an iron rod in broad daylight, it shakes but doesn’t break us. When an 11-year-old Dalit girl is gang raped repeatedly by the same men, it doesn’t question our morale; it disturbs us, but doesn’t leave us sleepless at night. What do we do? And …
Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (Critique of the model of Universal Health Coverage in Karnataka – response to an article, ‘Bogeys on the Universal Health Coverage train‘, in the Hindu on July 28th 2016) K Srinath Reddy has been allowed prime space under policy watch by the Hindu, dated 28th July 2016, to share his thoughts and …
Yogesh Maitreya Latur is one of the districts in the state of Maharashtra. Not many of us know about it. Some of us may know it and that too for the destructive earthquake that took place there in the year of 1993 in which almost 30,000 people had died. Latur is far away from …
Foil Vedanta 29th July 2016 * Angry protests across Zambia and India in run up to Vedanta’s London AGM on Friday. * Tribals and Dalit Bahujans protest beating and murder of activists resisting Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine. * UK courts hear two cases against Vedanta’s Zambian operations. * UNCTAD report reveals scale of KCM’s export …
Atul Anand When a testimony of Sunita Manjule appeared on an English news portal in the first week of June[1] about domestic violence and abuses by her ex-husband Nagraj Manjule, it shocked a lot of people. I was one of the people who believed there would be a huge backlash in media against Nagraj …
Dinesh Aminmattu [This is the text of the speech ‘Inclusivity of professional dalits in the media”(ಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವೃತ್ತಿಪರ ದಲಿತರ ಒಳ್ಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ’) delivered in Kannada by Dinesh Aminmattu at an event, organised by the Karnataka SC/ST editors association to celebrate 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, on 18th July 2016] If I am asked who my role model is …