For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dipankar Kamble The Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been continuously attacking the government over the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, which was passed by the parliament in second week of December 2019. There were protests across the country against the CAA. Even I participated in one such protest. In a recent post on …
Dr. B. Karthik Navayan Samata Sainik Dal (SSD), the organization founded by Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in 1924 with the objective of safeguarding the rights of all oppressed sections of Indian society is conducting a legal research on the closure of cases registered under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Rachelle Bharathi Chandran Kristallnacht, all the posts said little did they know that it was not Kristallnacht, It was Kristallmorgen Kristallnachmittang and Kristallabend.
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 …