Pardeep Attri It may be your interest to be our masters, but how can it be ours to be your slaves? – Thucydides As seen recently on the occasion of Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti, everyone from the RSS to the BJP to the Congress seem ready to appropriate and claim Dr. Ambedkar’s legacy, most likely …
Nagaraju Koppula, an unfinished inspirational painting
Gurram Seetaramulu During the draconian Emergency era, the youth of those days felt that an alternative politics was the imperative need of the hour. This was followed by a new consciousness that urged students to ‘go to the villages’. With the arrival of Mandal, the universities turned into a battleground between those who opposed …
Dr. B. R Ambedkar, Father of Modern India: A short infographic narrative
Saurav Arya ~
From the pages of Mook Nayak
The following is the first editorial (translated from Marathi) written by Babasaheb Ambedkar for the very first issue of Mook Nayak published in January 1920! This translation was first published in July 2010 by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Research Institute in Social Growth, Kolhapur. Translated by Dr. B.R. Kamble. ~ Mumbai, Saturday 31st January 1920 [Issue No.1]. …
Run For Caste Free India 2015
Run For Caste Free India to be held at 6.30 AM on Tuesday 14th April 2015 from People’s Plaza, Necklace Road, Hyderabad To commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar The event is being organized by Dalit Indian chamber of commerce in India (DICCI) partnering with Shanti chakra International, who have been conducting this Annual …
Ambedkar Uncelebrated: Notes on Second Equality March in JNU
Praveen Tulasi The Second Equality March in JNU shall take place on the 13th of April 2015 at 09:30 pm from Ganga dhaba to Chandrabhaga Hostel March or Rally in JNU. We have marches for equality every now and then (barring the marches led by Hindu Vidyarthi Sena, ABVP and other allied right wing …
Why Dalit History Matters
Pardeep Attri If you want to destroy a society, destroy its History and the society will get destroyed automatically – Dr. Ambedkar Nobody till now has questioned winners; neither will anyone in the future ask them, how have they won? Fiction is “generally accepted falsehood” or “non factual literature”, whereas the History is “systematic …
Mahatma Phule, philosopher revolutionary
Kathi Padma Rao (This is a translation of his Telugu article ‘bhaaratiiya saamaajika gharshaNalanunDi aavirbhavincina taatvikuDu mahaatma jOtiravu phuulE’) Mahatma Jyotirao Phule is a thinker who shook brahmanic India’s foundations. No philosopher is born on his own, he emerges from the conflict between various historical forces. In India, Phule and Ambedkar are the most …
Academic Untouchability: The Dalit Woman Experience
Praveena Thaali The academic sphere is generally seen as a space for knowledge creation. However, it can be argued that there is Brahminical hegemony over knowledge which is knowingly or unknowingly reflected in the academia. What kind of knowledge is being produced and by whom? This issue has to be debated seriously. There are …