For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dr Suryakant Waghmore is an Assistant Professor, Centre for Social Justice and Governance, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He has been recently awarded with his Doctorate degree from University of Edinburgh, Scotland where he was studying as one of the recipients of prestigious Commonwealth Scholarships.
Bodhi DSR, Faculty, Centre for Social Justice and Governance, TISS, Mumbai
Ajith Kumar A S is a Dalit musician, writer and filmmaker based in Trivandrum.
Alana Golmei, General Secretary, North East Helpline, completed her Post Doctoral study under Northeast India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2011. She is one of the founding members of Northeast Support Centre and Helpline in New Delhi, which was launched in 2007 with the aim to prevent harassment …
Asha Kowtal is the General Secretary of the All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM)
Martin Macwan (First published in the December 2001 issue of Seminar) The UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) held at Durban had three major agenda themes among others: identification of the sources and causes of discrimination, identification of victims of discrimination, and working out a programme of action …
Raj Kumar Politics is the most difficult of life skills, and those who remain reluctant to master this art are condemned to remain as obedient slaves while the masters of politics enjoy undiminished supremacy in all human relations. History bears testimony that civilization developments have been made possible by the leadership of the political …
(This is the second and final part of the paper ‘Interpretation of Cultural Identity and Caste Hegemony in Selected Prose Writing of V.T. Rajshekar‘. Please read the first part here.) Grishma Manikrao Khobragade Rajshekar indicates that once culture sanctifies the Brahmin as pure, the presence of the Brahmin is legitimized in all cultural institutions …
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes Dalit Camera interviewed Munavath Sriramulu, an Adivasi student in the German department of, EFLU, on the persecution he had been subjected to by the university administration for nearly two years. You’ll find an earlier interview of Sriramulu, conducted right after the tragic death of Mudasir Kamran, in the second part …