Vinod Kumar & Hawaldar Bharti Student movements in general, and students’ union election system in particular, have systematically been made non-effective through various government rulings by several electoral reform committees, particularly Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. In most of the Universities either there is no system of student representatives who can raise their voice for the …
The Students’ Struggles of Hyderabad Central University: Emergence of Dalit students’ Politics
Prof. P. Kesava Kumar In recent times, the privileged public sphere named University has occupied the centre stage of Indian politics. University is often viewed as an active place of learning by holding together the diverse social and political communities. It is not only a centre for catering knowledge, it also produces knowledge. Needless to …
ASA Statement in Solidarity with TISS Hyderabad GOI PMS Students
Educate!!! Agitate!!! Organize!!! AMBEDKARITE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (ASA) TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (TISS), MUMBAI-88 Statement in Solidarity with TISS Hyderabad GOI PMS Students and condemning the SINE DIE decision of the TISS HYBD Administration and appropriation of GOI PMS issues by the Non-GOI PMS Students We hereby write this statement after in consultation with …
Oppose the scrapping of financial aid to SC, ST students in TISS
Statement Against the arbitrary note by Registrar (TISS) deciding to discontinue DH and Hostel to eligible GoI-PMS SC/ST students “Lack of education leads to lack of wisdom, which leads to lack of morals, which leads to lack of progress, which leads to lack of money, which leads to the oppression of the lower …
Indian Academia and Institutional Injustice
B. Prabakaran JNU has been celebrated for critical thinking, political activism and regarded as one of the premier institutions for higher education and excellence in research. Students also strongly believe that campuses like JNU would be a ‘cultural mechanism’ for interactions within the student community coming from diverse social groups, and a resourceful platform …
On the Anxieties surrounding Dalit Muslim Unity
Ambedkar Reading Group Delhi University Recently we saw the coming together of Dalits and Muslims at the ground level, against a common enemy – the Hindu, Brahminical State and Culture – in many instances. It was a unification of lower caste groups and Muslims that we witnessed in the struggles of Ambedkar Students Association …
Dalit MPhil Scholar Attacked by SFI Hooligans at MG University Kottayam
C Ahamed Fayiz A Dalit MPhil scholar has been brutally assaulted by SFI activists at Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam Campus. Vivek Kumaran from Kalady, who is a research student at School of Gandhian Thoughts was violently attacked and is now admitted at the surgical section of Kottayam Medical College, said Gandhi Nagar SI M.G …
Wherever Caste exists in the World, Ambedkar and Marx will remain Irreconcilable
Dr Manisha Bangar NVP BAMCEF In India, and wherever in the world Caste exists, Ambedkar and Marx will remain Irreconcilable. Starting from the happenings in Hyderabad Central University in August 2015 when the students of ASA were ostracized, more so from the time of the Institutional murder of Rohith Vemula in January 2016, from …
A Critique of “Real” and Fear: A Response to UoH SU Election Debates
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 …