Amarnath Sandipamu In January of 2017, at the screening of my film Bommalollu – The Puppeteers in Bangalore, Karthik Navayan, who then worked at Amnesty, introduced me to a young man as an apprentice at his organisation. He said he was interested in filmmaking and was enthusiastically happy about meeting me and another friend …
Reading India in the time of protest!
Thongam Bipin Time and again we have seen how India unfolds itself to its margin during protests. It is violent and oppressive. It has made itself clear through its actions that the state machinery is not for the protection of the public but to protect the government from the public. The public is increasingly …
The unsure stage of Indian democracy…
Shiva Thorat It was around the time that the Constitution of India was delivered to Rajendra Prasad: after Gandhi’s assassination by Godse and in response, the former home minister Sardar Patel banned the then fledgeling right-wing organization – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The Prime Minister’s modern-day Sanghi agendas are more brutal than those of …
Ambedkarite NLU Students’ Collective Condemn CAA and NRC-NPR, Repression Unleashed
Statement Condemning the Implementation of CAA and NRC-NPR, Custody of Chandrashekhar Azad, Akhil Gogoi and Sadaf Jafar Ambedkarite NLU Students’ Collective We, the collective of Ambedkarite Study Circles of National Law Universities, vehemently and unequivocally condemn the custody of Chandrasekhar Azad, Akhil Gogoi and Sadaf Jafar. We believe that this is excessive state action …
End of Subjectivity, Post humanism and Islam in the Context of CAB
Umar Nizar ”It is possible that new rites of purification and cleansing will follow. Even new laws and decrees will be passed. One might be subjected to sweet brutal sermons, immemorial obligations of duty, abhorrent images of profanation. One might even become the target of a convoluted double-game …. a Great Transgression to extract …
Stop December Pogrom!
Rachelle Bharathi Chandran Kristallnacht, all the posts said little did they know that it was not Kristallnacht, It was Kristallmorgen Kristallnachmittang and Kristallabend.
National Conference on ‘Understanding Marginalities in Neo-Liberal Regime’
Ambedkar Memorial Lecture (AML) Team, TISS, Tuljapur Concept Note India’s tryst with destiny that took a definitive shape in 1947 was supposed to take a collective journey along the path of democracy, equality, and justice for all. As a newborn nation, this journey was expected to be fraught with multiple challenges. As India has …
NRC and CAA are as anti-Dalit as anti-Muslim!
Dharmesh Ambedkar Jai Bhim Friends, You are aware of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). The media is continuously saying that both these are anti-Muslims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has even said that those opposing CAA and NRC can be identified from their clothes. If you also think …
Request for public funding for a 5 day conference on ‘Education of Youth and Social Transformation’
Kalinga Mitra Trust (KMT) In 2006, graduates of Nagarjuna Training Institute and other Ambedkarite students began organizing around the issue of education in the western part of Odisha. In 2012, they formed the ‘Kalinga Mitra Trust (KMT)’, an organization that works with Ambedkarite Buddhist ideology to build a movement for bringing about social and educational …