For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Round Table India It is our pleasure to invite friends in Kolkata to the book launch event to be held on: Date: Saturday, February 27 Time: 5:30 PM in UTC Place: Earthcare Books, 10 Middleton Street, Kolkata, India, 700 071 Organised by: Ambedkar Age Collective; Calcutta Research Group: Earthcare Books, The Shared Mirror Publishing …
Nidhin Shobhana This short essay aims to deconstruct and challenge the heterogeneity claims made by certain universities. Such a challenge is informed by Phule-Ambedkarite scholarships. It is not original. It is a reiteration of old, relevant facts. This essay is timely as we are increasingly witnessing hysteric and glorious accounts on nation and universities (across …
Hariram A India has seen the worst kind of subjugation of its own people in the name of caste since ages, the oppressors have been successful in their task of keeping the Bahujan Samaj (OBCs, SC, STs and RMs) under their control as they are very much committed to their cause of oppression and subjugation …
Asha Kowtal In August 2013, Kaafi, our sister from Jind Haryana was on her way to write her final exams and qualify to be a teacher. She was kidnapped, raped and murdered. Her dream to be a teacher and her aspirations to contribute to her family, her community and to this nation were shattered. …
The Conscious Four “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” ~ Tom Clancy Tom Clancy might be an espionage thriller writer, but then what he says above is just the protocol when …
Rahi Gaikwad I remember a chapter in my class ten SSC (State Secondary Certificate) board textbook. It was an excerpt from Nehru’s ‘Discovery of India’. The passage spoke of Nehru’s idea of India; it is perhaps among the best known lines of the book. Nehru said, “All of us I suppose, have varying pictures …
Dinesh Kumar Ahirwar The meeting held at JNU on 9th February to commemorate Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, leaders of the secessionist movement in Kashmir, has resulted in sedition charges on JNUSU president and others. The question just cannot be reduced to the arrest of the JNUSU president and intervention in university affairs, paying …
Yasmeen Jahan “The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ”outlaw,” the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.” ~ Michel Foucault, ‘Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings’, p. 419 Abstract Marginalization is a process that leads to sidelining of a certain community/individual to the periphery …
Nidhin Shobhana Recently I had the opportunity to participate and speak in a two-hour session on the ‘Intersectionalities of caste and gender’ conducted by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights at Miranda House, Delhi. The session aimed at understanding how caste and gender operate in Higher Educational Institutions. It was organized as a part …