For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Shabana Ali (This is a rough transcript in English of Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association’s Presidential Candidate for JNUSU elections 2017 Shabana Ali’s almost 33-minute long speech at BAPSA’s pre-election General Body Meeting (GBM) at the Mahi-Mandvi Mess, held on the 2nd of September, 2017.)
BAPSA, JNU The appalling pamphlet put out by ABVP calling for a protest outside CHS against Rajini Krish’s death is absolutely uncalled for. We unequivocally reject the politically manipulative and conniving concern extended by the Killers of Rohith Vemula and Assaulters of Najeeb Ahmed. It is a dangerous sign of the future to come. …
Koonal Duggal and Kavita Bhanot A poster was recently shared widely on social media advertising a panel discussion at the 2017 Delhi Book Fair, titled ‘Contemporary Dalit Politics’. The event was a discussion around Badri Narayan Tiwari’s new book Fractured Tales: Invisibles in Indian Democracy, which makes a case for the ways in which …
Joint pamphlet by BAPSA, SIO, YFDA on the occasion of Rohith’s Shahadat Din [Distributed for ‘Resistance March’ against Institutionalized Brahmanism on 16 January 2017 in JNU, New Delhi] The institutional murder of Rohith Vemula and the enforced disappearance of Najeeb Ahmad reveal that agents of Brahmanical Fascism in universities have selected students from marginalized …
N Sukumar & Shailaja Menon In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 sugarcane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. Each …
Hisham Ul Wahab P The ongoing protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus demanding a fast probe into the disappearance and return of Najeeb Ahmad, a muslim student of School of Biotechnology, and immediate judicial action against ABVP culprits made a huge outcry among the students and teachers of the campus. But the heinous silence …
Prashant Bagde The recent assertion by BSF on Round Table India published on dated 2 Oct. 2016, regarding the UoH SU elections 2016 seems to be an attempt to claim that they are ‘real’ Ambedkarites. At the same time they are alleging ASA of many things thus intended to say that ASA is not …
ಹಾರೋಹಳ್ಳಿರವೀಂದ್ರ (Harohalli Ravindra) ಉಗ್ರ ಹಿಂದುತ್ವವಾದಿ ವಿ.ಡಿ. ಸಾವರ್ಕರ್ “ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಭಾರತ ದೇಶ ಪಿತೃಭೂಮಿಯಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಪುಣ್ಯ ಭೂಮಿಯು ಆಗಿದಿಯೊ ಆತನೇ ಹಿಂದೂ” ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾಗಿ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಮರನ್ನು, ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತರನ್ನು, ಪಾರಸಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಯಹೂದ್ಯರನ್ನು ಹೊರಗಿಡುವುದು ಮತ್ತು ಬೌದ್ಧ, ಜೈನ, ಸಿಖ್ಖರನ್ನು ಒಳತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳು ಇದ್ದವು ಎಂದು ಸುರೇಶ್ ಭಟ್ ಬಾಕ್ರಬೈಲು ಅವರ ‘ಕೇಸರಿ ಭಯೋತ್ಪಾದನೆ’ ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕರ್ಮ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ಜಾತಿ ಪದ್ದತಿ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ಣವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಸಂರಚನೆಯನ್ನೇ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಹಿಂದೂಧರ್ಮ ಸಾವರ್ಕರ್ ಅಂತವರ …
Dr Manisha Bangar NVP BAMCEF The election results of HCUSU 2016 have brought glad tidings. Ambedkar Students Association, whose five member students including Rohith Vemula were suspended and which has been in the forefront of the #JusticeforRohith movement, has emerged as the second single largest students union. Congratulations go to Prashanth Dontha, Ms Kavya, …