For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Bansidhar Deep Recently in Kalahandi, Odisha, Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary was celebrated on a big scale. This celebration was deliberated and pre-planned by the Ambedkarite groups at Kalahandi. Ironically, the right wing forces were also celebrating Ambedkar on their platforms for vote bank and other political purposes. Kalahandi is one of the backward districts …
Noel Didla There has been a recent spate of speculative publications on Dalit women by anyone and everyone to validate themselves as academics, journalists, editorial writers, policy experts, global anti caste consultants, subaltern studies space makers and global solidarity town criers etc. Majority of these folk creep on the walls of Dalit women, breeze through Savari, RTI …
ಹುಚ್ಚಂಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಸಂತೇಬೆನ್ನೂರು (Hucchangi Prasad) ಇಂದು ಡಾ.ಬಿ.ಅರ್.ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರ 125 ನೇ ಜನ್ಮೋತ್ಸವದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತ ಮಿಂದೇಳುತ್ತಿದೆ. ವಿಶ್ವಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರ ಜಯಂತಿಯನ್ನು ”ಜಾಗತೀಕ ಜ್ಞಾನ” ದಿನವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥಪೊರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಆಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಭಾರತದ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಂಗ್ರೇಸ್ ಪಕ್ಷದ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿಗಳು ಬಾಬಾಸಾಹೇಬರ ಉತ್ಸವ ಮೂರ್ತಿಯನ್ನೊತ್ತು ಹೊಗಳುತ್ತ ಪ್ಲೆಕ್ಸ್‌ ಹಾಗೂ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಭೂಬ್ಬೆಹೊಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ದೇಶದ ಪ್ರಧಾನಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳಾದ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿಯಂತು ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರವರನ್ನು ಮೈಮೇಲೆ ಅವಾಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಂತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತ ಲಂಡನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ವಾಸವಿದ್ದ ಮನೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಚನ್ನೈನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅವರ ಸಮಾಧಿಯನ್ನು ಅಬಿವೃದ್ದಿಗೂಳಿಸಿ ಪ್ರವಾಸಿತಾಣವಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಲು …
Vinod Kumar State came into existence with the failure of human values in the society. As far as Marxist understanding is concerned, in the primitive society, there was no existence of private property and private family. The very existence of private property led to conflict in society. Where there is property there is greed, …
Anoop Kumar Continued from here. His speech at the talk organised by the Ambedkarite Students’ Association at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, held on 22nd December, 2014. The speech has been transcribed by Valliammal Karunakaran. Now I would like to take you back to my engineering college days. I did my 10+2 …
Kurukhetra Dip “Gandhiji, I have no homeland”, said Babasaheb Ambedkar during the 1930s when India was struggling for freedom from the British. Babasaheb further says, “how can I call this land my own homeland and this religion my own, wherein we are treated worse than cats and dogs, wherein we cannot get water to …
Mangesh Dahiwale Portrait of Dr. Eleanor Zelliot by Sudhir Waghmare Just after the sad demise of Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1956, Eleanor Zelliot came to India in the 1960s to conduct her field work for her PhD dissertation. She was pursuing her PhD in history. Those were the days when the Sun was just gone …
Murali Ramathoti The essence of Chintu Kumari’s response, that “The left and the Ambedkarite movements need Debate and Unity”, is to say that CPIML Liberation’s (henceforth Liberation) struggle focuses not only on economic lines but on social lines too, i.e. on caste, feudal pride, women’s degradation etc. To justify her argument she narrated the …
Periyar Bhim Vemula I had an interesting conversation on Facebook, triggered by a small LinkedIn post that I shared on the social media website. The article was related to how Tina Dabi, the first rank holder in India’s qualifying exam for its civil services, was a beneficiary of ‘reservation,’ a mode of positive discrimination …