For An Informed Ambedkar Age
N. Sukumar and Shailaja Menon “The backward classes have come to realize that after all education is the greatest material benefit for which they can fight. We may forego material benefits, we may forego material benefits of civilization, but we cannot forego our right and opportunities to reap the benefit of the highest education to …
Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the police force deployed at the University of Hyderabad be immediately withdrawn 23-3-2016, Hyderabad. The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the police force deployed at the University of Hyderabad be immediately withdrawn. The police are following up their brutal crackdown on students on Tuesday with further targeting and …
NCDHR The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) condemns the brutal crackdown on students and teachers of the University of Hyderabad. The crackdown was on protestors in the University Campus. In January 2016, a research scholar, Rohith Vemula committed suicide after this scholarship was stopped and he was thrown out of the hostel …
Vaikhari Aryat SAVARI strongly condemns the police brutality on students and faculty, which included verbal threats of rape hurled at women students; the profiling of politically active students and the unpardonable ongoing acts of depriving access to food, water and communication. Hostel students have the additional burden of keeping their parents and families assured of …
Round Table India An unprecedented crisis situation is being faced by students of UoH with hostel messes being shut down apart from strictly enforced no-entry for media, political groups and external student organizations (see circular). Updates reaching the social media and through phone conversations have confirmed that Internet has been blocked, and access to …
Amar Khade The Chronology of the events that took place at University of Hyderabad on 22-03-2016 Date: 22-03-2016 Time: 08.40 am Registrar’s Office, University of Hyderabad notifies “Prof.Appa Rao Podile, Vice-Chancellor, resumed the charge in the Forenoon of March 22, 2016” on the website of the University of Hyderabad. Time: 09.00 am The news of …
21st March 2016, New Delhi: Lingaram Kodopi, an independent journalist from Bastar, and nephew of human rights defender and Aam Aadmi Party member Soni Sori from Bastar, Chhattisgarh, along with Vrinda Grover (Supreme Court Lawyer) Prof. Uma Chakravarty (Women’s Rights’ Activist), Kalyani Menon-Sen (Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression) addressed a press meet today …
Suhas Bhasme Comrade Kanhaiya’s last words in the speech given at JNU before he was arrested under the sedition act were ‘Lal Salaam aur Nila Salaam’. The slogan denotes a significant ideological shift that the country has been witnessing in the last few years and in particular, the last few months, after the incident …
Amar Khade The Ministry of Social Justice, Government of India, declared “20 March” as “Social Empowerment Day” to commemorate Mahad Satyagraha by Dr B R Ambedkar, in the press release of 20 March 2003. Brief History of Mahad Satyagraha The Mahad Satyagraha was launched by Dr B R Ambedkar under his organization Bahishkrit Hitakarini …