For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Rahul Sonpimple Abstract This article aims to understand the recent ‘celebration of Ambedkar’ by the ruling party and other political parties. The article argues that the celebration of Ambedkar by the BJP and RSS is more than an unsuccessful attempt at appropriation, rather it is a socio-political compulsion brought upon by the Dalit-Bahujan struggle …
On 14th April 2016, on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Koonal Duggal, a Dalit PhD scholar in the Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University, and a guest faculty at the S N School of Fine Arts and Communication, UoH, for the first time learnt that he was no longer …
Essay 6. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Vinay Shende When I read that Round Table India is asking for essays on the theme of ‘what Babasaheb Ambedkar means to me’, it made me ask this question to myself: Is it about his thoughts? Is it his image of standing firm, holding the Constitution …
Essay 5. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Gouri Patwardhan My first encounter with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar outside the school textbook was at the age of 31. I was working as an interpreter cum research assistant with a German documentary filmmaker on a film on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1997. That was the first …
Ambedkar was for ‘(Pra)Buddh Bharat’, not ‘Hindu Bharat: What if all dalit-Bahujans of India embrace Buddhism! Sanjeev Kumar On 14th April, 2016, Rohith Vemula’s mother and brother embraced Buddhism. This of course is a major intervention in the ongoing dalit discourse on identity, nationalism, discrimination, caste and religion at large. To respond/appropriate this discourse, Ram Madhav …
Rahi Gaikwad Part II of the series continued from here Washim/Hingoli. The local provision store turns them away. The flour mill refuses to grind their grain. The village well becomes a no-go zone. Barred from farm work their daily wages stop. And a boycott begins. A number of Dalits in several villages in Washim …
DABMSA EC April 19, 2016. Today, members of the EFL University administration responded to the summons by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Koonal Duggal and other students from EFLU and members of the administration – the Registrar, the Deputy Proctor, the Anti-discrimination Officer and the Dean of Students’ Welfare – deposed before Smt. …
Essay 4. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ মহীতোষ মণ্ডল (Mahitosh Mandal) অসুস্থতার কারনে ২০১৫ সালে রুবি হসপিটালে ভর্তি হই । জীবনের প্রথম অপারেশন ।জীবনে প্রথম হসপিটালে রাত কাটানো । স্বাভাবিকভাবেই তীব্র একাকীত্ব ও ভীতি ঘিরে ধরেছিল । সঙ্গে ছিল একটা ট্যাব আর তাতে আম্বেকরের কয়েকটা টেক্সটের পিডিএফ । ট্যাব ঘাঁটতে ঘাঁটতে খুলে …
BAPSA JNU, New Delhi Murder of Social Justice: The Unity of Left and Ambedkarites can’t be built on the Carcasses of Social Justice The revolutionary pretentious red brigade, once again, exposed its original color. Marx already said, history repeats itself first as tragedy and second as a farce. The history of betrayal to the …