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ICDA Team ICDA’s team finds Caste Discrimination Rampant in Distribution of Relief The coastal districts including Cuddalore have been severely affected by the recent floods following an unprecedented level of heavy rains. Though everyone has been affected, it was found that the Dalits were more affected, NGO accounts, newspaper reports and reports by social activists …
Mahitosh Mandal “‘What is it Kusum’, I said, ‘What are you thinking of?’ ‘Saar,’ she said, wiping her face, ‘the worst part was not the hunger or the thirst. It was to sit there helpless and listen to the policemen making their announcement, hearing them say that our lives, our existence, was worth less …
Dhruwa R Is it possible that an academic, a celebrity of sorts, is completely naive about the absence of Ambedkar in Indian pedagogy, and every now and then asks empty rhetorical questions: why students don’t get to read Ambedkar? Is it possible for someone to base one’s writing and empirical understanding from one set …
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes B. Sudarshan, one of the chief organisers of the recent ‘Peddakura Pandaga’, or Beef Festival, in Osmania University recently, speaks to Dalit Camera on the background of the event, and the need fororganising such an event, a couple of days before the festival. {youtube}2J4Tg8ksHTQ{/youtube} On December 10th, the whole …
Pradnya Jadhav Dear Babasaheb, you have uplifted our lives, which can never be laudable without your mention… You are in our every breath, but in our long journeys, we forget to recollect the moments when each one of us first met you. Today I want to go back to see the time when we first …
Volunteer groups are attempting to organize information on Chennai flood relief from multiple sources including social media. The screenshots below give an idea about how information is being collected, sorted and displayed for rapid dissemination by users. Users can search for, retrieve and add information over a wide range of topics that have been …
Ambedkar Age Collective Dear friends, we’re happy to announce the release of our first book, Hatred in the belly: Politics behind the appropriation of Dr Ambedkar’s writings, published by The Shared Mirror Publishing House. It is available on amazon here. Hatred in the belly, as you know, is a compilation of the debates triggered by …
Ambedkar Age Collective Order your copy of Hatred in the belly on www.amazon.in to read and shake up brahmanical hegemony! Jai Bhim! Hatred in the Belly is a Telugu phrase (kaDupulO kasi) taken from a speech delivered by poet Jupaka Subhadra, in Hyderabad, on the appropriation of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste. The speech, included in …
Mahitosh Mandal Everyone who feels moved by the deplorable condition of the Untouchables begins by saying: ‘We must do something for the Untouchables’. One seldom hears any of the persons interested in the problem saying: ‘Let us do something to change the Hindu’. ~ B R Ambedkar, ‘Untouchables or the Children of India’s Ghetto’ …