For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Alliance For Social Justice & Students For Social Justice In a society divided along religious, caste, linguistic, and regional lines, the most efficient way for a dominant segment to perpetuate its hegemony is to keep the subaltern from getting educated. History as well as mythology illustrates this, as seen in the stories of Shambook, Ekalavya, …
Talk on ‘The Political Institutionalised: An Approach to the Study of the State in India’ By Prof. G. Aloysius On October 31st, Wednesday, 3:00 p.m., Classroom #2, First floor, NAB, EFL-University, Hyderabad Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University ~
[Via buddhaneversleeps] ‘3D STEREO CASTE’ is a documentary series by A S Ajith Kumar that would try to capture caste in the music sphere. The attempt would be to understand how caste plays a key role in determining the practices in music, defining and classifying music styles and in determining music making, performance and listening …
Karthik Navayan Continued from here. The Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 Article 17 of Indian Constitution seeks to abolish ‘untouchability’ and its practice in any form is forbidden. It is basically a “statement of principle” that needs to be made operational with the apparent objective to remove humiliation and multifaceted harassments …
Joshua Isaac As part of ‘Panchami Land Retrieval Movement’ planned all over Tamil Nadu, announced by our leader Annan Thol.Thirumavalavan on John Thomas – Ezhumalai (Land retrieval struggle martyrs) rememberance day, Panchami Land Retrieval protest & direct action was carried out at Maraimalai Nagar, Kanchipuram district regarding the 36 acres identified in that area.
Anand Teltumbde (From ‘Dalit Rights‘ blog) During the state sponsored carnage of Muslims in 2002, Dalits in Gujarat were unduly defamed having performed the role of foot soldiers of the Hindutva forces. These were stray incidents in Ahmedabad wherein Dalits were spotted in the crowds that attacked Muslims but there were several other instances that …
Neel Kranti Media प्रो. मुंगेकरकमेटी रिपोर्ट को लागू करवाने तथा वर्धमानमहावीर मेडिकल कॉलेज केदलित-आदिवासी छात्रो के हितो के लिए 19 अक्टूबर को जंतर मंतर, नयी दिल्लीमें एक प्रदर्शन का आयोजन किया गया. इस प्रदर्शन में जेएनयू, दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी, जामियायूनिवर्सिटी, एम्सऔर मौलाना आजाद मेडिकल कॉलेज केछात्रो ने वर्धमान महावीर मेडिकल कॉलेज के संघर्षरत दलित-आदिवासी छात्रोके …
Ravi Chandran Continued from here. (This is the second part of the excerpts of the interview with Paul Divakar, conducted by Ravi Chandran of Dalit Camera: Through Un-touchable Eyes) {youtube}ZCNMTY_3s9w{/youtube} Paul Divakar: The one thing that stands out among the northern states is the lack of Dalit social movements and their assertion. If …
All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch The violent nexus of caste and patriarchy has once again raised its hood in the form of increasing sexual violence against Dalit women in Haryana. Abused and broken, the survivors are still waiting for justice. The rest of India shamelessly continues to debate whether this is a caste issue? …