[Via Mohan Dharavath] A meeting on ‘Caste, Memory and Struggle: Returning to Lakshmipeta‘ on 04-09-2012, Time: 5 pm, Place: Room No. 1, New Academic block EFL University
‘Caste, Memory and Struggle: Returning to Lakshmipeta’
Dalits in Nepal: Politically Manufactured Karma
Dalits in Nepal: Politically Manufactured Karma The facts on the ground Suresh Singh (First published in Insight magazine in 2005) Dalits are groups of people considered as ritually impure and imagined as living apart from the “mainstream society”. This poorly understood community is called untouchables or Dalit, a term borrowed from India. The literal meaning …
Caste of Staff Displayed on College Website
[Via Babasaheb Ambedkar Channel on social media] Caste of Staff displayed on College Website by Saraswati Social Work College of Washim, Maharashtra. Protest & write Email to the Principal regarding this act. ~~~
Beyond the Silence: Understanding Dalit-Bahujan Politics through Ayyankali and Narayana Guru
Ambedkar Students Association (A.S.A) would like to invite you to a talk on ‘Beyond Silence: Understanding Dalit Bahujan Politics Through Ayyankali and Narayana Guru‘
“Cultural Politics of Religious Festivals in India: The Popular and the Secular”
DABMSA, TSA, PDSU, BSF and TVV invite you for a Seminar and Discussion on “Cultural Politics of Religious Festivals in India: The Popular and the Secular” Speakers: Prof. Kancha Ilaiah, MANU University, Hyderabad
Warning: Ayyankali Ahead!
Ajith Kumar A S At Vellayambalam junction in Trivandrum, Ayyankali stands in the centre. We have to circle the Ayyankali square to get to our destinations. The heavy traffic in the junction may not help us to take a passing glance at the statue most of the time. But our politics would. That could never …
The Murder of Dalit-Bahujan King Mahabali and the Myth of Onam
James Michael (For Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes) Onam is the only national festival of Kerala that has assumed a universal secular character. Other popular festivals like Christmas or Bakrid are closely identified with particular religions like Christianity and Islam. Although many Keralities participate in non-Hindu festivals, Onam assumes its certain universality in terms of …
More of the Same in the Global India
Braj Ranjan Mani The tyranny of capitalism in India cannot be grasped, let alone resisted, in isolation from its wider social context. Capitalism is far more dangerous in India than in the Euro-America because of the culture and economics of caste. Today, India (after China and the US) has the world’s third largest middle class …
Massive Agitation of All-India SC/ST Employees for Reservation in Promotion
Nikhil Sablania 22 August 2012. Today, Rashtriya Dalit Panchayat and All India SC/ST Railway Employees Association held a mass rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against the Uttar Pradesh government for accepting the Supreme Court order that declared as unconstitutional a section of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service (reservation for SC, ST …