[Via Shibi Peter] Dr. Paul Chirakkarodu Memorial Meeting Saturday 10:00am until 5:00pm S.E.D.S Centre, Pakkil, Kottayam 10 am: Seminar
Dr. Paul Chirakkarodu Memorial Meeting
Caste and the Indian Political Economy
Lamakaan Night School on ‘Caste and the Indian Political Economy‘ Friday 17th & Saturday 18th Aug, 7:00 – 9: 30 PM By Dr. Anand Teltumbde ~~~
It is not red versus blue
Via DABMSA (Dalit Adivasi Bahujan Minority Students Association)
Why Beef and Pork Food Festival at JNU?
The New Materialists Comrades, we have recently seen the Janmastami celebrations in JNU by right wing and casteist forces i.e. ABVP and NSUI in many places of JNU. Celebration of the Hindu festivals (in the name of celebrating Culture) is the act of enhancing and strengthening the caste system. Krishna, the god of Hindus who …
Don’t Give Me Red!
Ajith Kumar A S Going straight into the matter, let me confirm that this note is my response to Anand Teltumbde’s article “It’s Not Red Vs Blue” published in Outlook ( Aug 20, 2012). I am sure that it is not a comprehensive critique of the article. But rather I will be sharing some questions …
Conference on Inequities in Independent India
Conference on Inequities in Independent India On 15th Aug 2012 ~~~ Sri Bojja Tharakam, Senior Advocate, High Court of AP Will speak on the theme: Constitution and its implementation ~
Will Sikh Leaders install Hindu Gods in the Golden Temple?
Pardeep Attri The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will …
Questions of name
Gail Omvedt “Dalit”, “Scheduled Caste”, “Ex-Untouchable” and “Harijan”. These are only some of the many words used to refer to the most oppressed sections of Indian society, “untouchable” in the traditional caste order, performers of the most degrading task, and still today caught in the throes of poverty, discrimination and the remnants of untouchability. “Dalit” …
Wherever Dalits assert themselves, there is a massacre!
Ravi Chandran All the atrocities committed on Dalits are a result of Dalit assertion. This was also exposed on the intellectual level recently, when some Dalits theorized on the Ambedkar cartoon and the non-Dalit intellectuals joined hands for an all out war against them; in this too they found a few amenable Dalit intellectuals …