For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Rahi Gaikwad I remember a chapter in my class ten SSC (State Secondary Certificate) board textbook. It was an excerpt from Nehru’s ‘Discovery of India’. The passage spoke of Nehru’s idea of India; it is perhaps among the best known lines of the book. Nehru said, “All of us I suppose, have varying pictures …
Yogesh Maitreya The Sun that was leaked, Being dimmed Into the bosom of the night, Then I was born On footpath… ~ Namdeo Dhasal It was a nippy and brooding winter of 2011 in Nagpur; I was in second year of Bachelor’s degree. Books, especially poetry and novels became the sole escape from material …
Dilip Mandal So, for you, what are the most seminal texts of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the constitution maker of India? What names come to your mind or your imagination? Is it Annihilation of Caste (AoC), or is it Riddles in Hinduism (RiH) or is it something to do with the Roundtable Conference or his works …
Ambedkar Age Collective Dear friends, we’re happy to announce the release of our first book, Hatred in the belly: Politics behind the appropriation of Dr Ambedkar’s writings, published by The Shared Mirror Publishing House. It is available on amazon here. Hatred in the belly, as you know, is a compilation of the debates triggered by …
Ambedkar Age Collective Order your copy of Hatred in the belly on www.amazon.in to read and shake up brahmanical hegemony! Jai Bhim! Hatred in the Belly is a Telugu phrase (kaDupulO kasi) taken from a speech delivered by poet Jupaka Subhadra, in Hyderabad, on the appropriation of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste. The speech, included in …
Georgy Kuruvila Roy Oppression or freedom? One should ask a very pertinent question to anyone who claims to be a representative of a movement or a theoretical discourse: do you believe in it because you base yourself on oppression or you base yourself on freedom? This question is pertinent because the answer can lead to …
Kshirod Nag To engage with the ‘three responses’ by Nivedita Menon, Partha Chatterjee and Sudipto Kaviraj to Perry Anderson’s Indian Ideology (Verso, 2013) is quite an interesting exercise. Not exactly for any rich content or explanations by these ‘acclaimed’ intellectuals of our times, but more for the kind of approaches they have adopted to …
B. Prabakaran “A religion which does not recognize man as man is not religion but a disease” ~ Dr. Ambedkar. Gujarat government has retracted four lakh books on Ambedkar titled, Rashtriya Mahapursh Bharat Ratna Ambedkar, the standard title used by Hindu groups for Ambedkar, which was expected to be given out to school students across the …
Mahitosh Mandal Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say. ~ Paul Celan, ‘Speak You Too’ I have not stated my question as ‘How DOES a Brahmin-Savarna respond to a Dalit voice?’ Had I framed it this way, the answer would have been a factual one derived from real-life experiences. If we observe the …