For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Vikas Parasram Meshram It is natural for all common people to wonder when the Prime Minister gets time to work because he has to be in his office and dispose of files; it takes time, but since last year he has been busy with election campaigning. Voting has already been held in Himachal Pradesh and …
Sidhodhan Umare Abstract In this paper I have talked about the etymology of the word democracy within the Indian context. Then I have discussed the idea of democracy in India with special reference to Dr. Ambedkar’s conception of democracy, the sources of his philosophy of democracy that he used like the Navayana Buddhism which promotes …
Rachelle Bharathi Chandran I wrote a story last month about the way we as a society have relegated an entire group of people to do cleaning work and argued for the need for systemic change, not merely ‘fair pay’ as per savarna women’s imagination. What I didn’t discuss in it was the most important factor …
Pranav Jeevan P India’s premier higher educational institutions for Engineering and Management, IITs and IIMs, have been violating the constitutionally mandated reservation norms for years. The violations are visible mostly in the PhD admissions and faculty recruitment where there is no centralized exam like JEE, GATE or CAT. The RTIs filed by Ambedkar Periyar Phule …
Vinay Damodar and Rajesh Chandra Kumar A lot of opinions have already come to the public domain on the recent Supreme Court Judgement on reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections i.e. 103rd Constitutional Amendment. We have not focused deeply on EWS specifically in this article, but tried to look at some consequences of this verdict …
Umar Nizar One fine morning, I was answering the call of nature, like any `Swachch’ citizen of a sacred land, in the designated toilet of a JNU hostel, where I was residing at that time. Imagine my astonishment, on being accosted by a fellow hosteler who, while brushing his teeth, and foaming at the mouth,was …
Vinay Damodar The system of government of any country depends on the constitution of that country. The constitution is considered as the supreme law of the country as it broadly defines the nature of power in the country, the nature of the government, the rights and duties of the citizens, the relationship between the center …
Ankush Uttam Helode Gail Omvedt has described it as the ‘Problem of Entry’. What she means by ‘Problem of Entry’ is basically ‘getting jobs and getting land’ in the case of the workers and the peasants, respectively [Omvedt 1994]. It was this that concerned Dr. B.R. Ambedkar more than anything else. Consequently, he showed the …
Hritika Wasnik The Ambedkarite Students’ Association was founded in Hyderabad Central University (HCU), in 1993 by a small group of Dalit students. The idea behind forming an Ambedkarite organization was to address the issues of discrimination and harassment faced by the Dalit students in the university campus.