For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Soma Mandal What happens when the university becomes the contested site for domination, discrimination and privilege on the one hand and escapes from them on the other? In any nation, the idea of the university evokes a place learning, knowledge and unlearning prejudices. It is the space which echoes Tagore’s words, “Where the mind is without …
Dr Jas Simran Kehal The concluding pages of the book states that as much as Babasaheb chose Buddhism, Buddhism also chose Babasaheb. Does that mean that in order to be an Ambedkarite, I have to follow Babasaheb’s Buddhism? May be, yes. And the affirmation was clear after going through the first few pages of this …
Ravikant Kisana A Long Overdue Love Letter to the Mediocrity of the Millennial Savarna MBAs & their Feckless Technobabble There was a time in the early 2000s when tired of decades of stagnant economic growth, claustrophobic wholesale markets and bureaucratic sarkaari offices staffed with unambitious professionals of legendary inefficiency—the savarna middle class in India wholeheartedly …
Chanchal Kumar Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, was in the news headlines some days back for reasons that can only be called tragic. He was violently attacked on stage by a Muslim man, which has led to Rushdie losing eyesight in one eye and, according to the latest news, also losing control …
Dear friends, Jai Bhim. I’m excited to share about this new journey and the beginning of our ‘Begumpura Productions’- a space we’re creating to tell our stories. I have spent the last six years working in this elite field of documentary filmmaking with few resources, less privilege and zero caste capital. Very often, young, eager …
Round Table India Anissa Garcia of Aisha Coley Casting in Los Angeles, California, reached out to us with the following message:
Ritesh J. In the upcoming bypolls in Telangana’s Munugodu constituency, Bahujan Samaj Party in Telangana led by Dr. Praveen Kumar an Ex-IPS officer, gave ticket to an individual from an OBC jati, Andoju Shankara Chary, against three major Reddy candidates of TRS, BJP and INC.
Ankush Uttam Helode “Unfortunately, I was born a Hindu untouchable but I will not die a Hindu” (DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES, Vol-3,pg98) With a view to reviewing the political and social situation in the light of his ten-year-old relentless social struggle, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar decided to hold a conference of the Depressed …
Bobby Kunhu “Nothing succeeds like success.” ~ Alexandre Dumas Bigotry is fueled by hatred informed through ignorance and misinformation. Xenophobic celebration over Rishi Sunak’s appointment as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not limited to the Hindutva right wing, but spans across Indian Savarna population and Pakistan too. Addressing the simpler, stupider and …