For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Hariram A Stagnation is the sign of death and dynamism is the sign of life, change is permanent and it is the law of nature. India for centuries was under stagnation and stinking with the presence of the corpse of caste and gender discrimination. Man is evil and selfish, but nature is not. The …
Jay Prakash Faqir Historian Aditya Mukherjee in one of his essays has accused western historians like Eric Hobsbawm of being Eurocentric. He finds Hobsbawm’s characterization of the 20th century as an Age of Extremes to be an ill-informed opinion as far as Asia and the Asian perspective are concerned. And no doubt, his opinion …
Swapnil Dhanraj The Bahujan Samaj Party chief, Mayawati, is not an ordinary woman. She has successfully shouldered her responsibilities of representing the Bahujan Samaj throughout her political career in various ways. The charismatic personality which the BSP chief carries today is not a result of any “media publicity” or false propaganda of serving the …
Ritesh Tomer The debate on libraries: An introduction For long, the Indian university system has been surrounded by controversies related to administrative and infrastructural issues. There is a long history of upsets, revolving around the implementation of the reservation policy, the student admission process, hostel non-availability, and staff scarcity. However, the recent uproars around …
Suresh Ravichandran This is not a review of the film Kabali. I do not like to review any films, primary reason being that I am not qualified enough to do so. Rather, this shall be my perspective on the film. Or to be precise, this is a post of celebration. So, after the release …
ದಿನೇಶ್ ಅಮಿನ್ ಮಟ್ಟು (Dinesh Aminmattu) ನನಗೆ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರು ರೋಲ್ ಮಾಡೆಲ್ ಅಂತ ಕೇಳಿದರೆ ಅದು ಬಾಬಾಸಾಹೇಬ್ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್. ಇದನ್ನು ಬಹಳ ಸಂದರ್ಭಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಮತ್ತೇ ಅದನ್ನೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಬಾಬಾ ಸಾಹೇಬ್ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಅವರು ಸಂವಿಧಾನ ಶಿಲ್ಪಿ, ದಲಿತರ ನಾಯಕ, ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅದರ ಜೊತೆ ಅವರೊಬ್ಬ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರೂ ಆಗಿದ್ದರು ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ನಾವು ಮರೆತಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ೧೯೨೦ ರಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂಕ ನಾಯಕ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಅವರು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅದರ ಎಡಿಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಗಳ ಒಂದು ಪುಸ್ತಕ …
Gurinder Azad On 27th August 2007, V. Ajay Sree Chandra hanged himself in one of the hostel rooms of the famed IISc, hostel room number F002 to be precise, leaving his father and two younger brothers behind. Yet another prey to the brahmanical devil which lurks around to kill anyone it finds. It doesn’t discriminate …
Round Table India Recently, on 18th July, sixteen individuals who gathered in Kannur, Kerala, to discuss the ongoing situation in Kashmir and to express solidarity with the Kashmiris were arrested by the police. In this interview, Round Table India talks with two of the arrested: documentary film-maker Rupesh Kumar, and social media activist Afthab …
Rajesh Rajamani Kabali is a very good movie. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!) The movie effectively borrows several Rajinikant tropes and uses them meaningfully within the script. For example, Rajinikant’s movies almost always begin with an opening song. Where he introduces himself to the audience. No one knows why this is done. It’s quite a bizarre …