Pinak Banik Continued from Part 1 The purpose of the “Story of Nangeli” appearing on Facebook in Orijit Sen’s own words is:“This comics story is dedicated to Rohith Vemula (1989-2016), who, like Nangeli, chose death over a life of indignity.“ Tribute to …
Even my children used to get assaulted: Chithralekha
Eramangalathu Chitralekha On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Bahujan Students’ Front salutes all Bahujan revolutionaries who fought for gender equity in the oppressive casteist patriarchal system. It is due to the efforts of these valiant souls that we are here today, enabled to pen these very lines. We would like to share today …
Brahmin Feminism sans Brahmin Patriarch
Kanika S It has almost become common sense that feminism has been shaped exclusively by a class of women that came from Brahmin-Savarna castes in India, to the extent that even trashy Brahminical platforms like The Quint have also had to recently float articles admitting the same when it was no longer possible to …
Reception Histories of Bahujan Narrative Identity: The Many Forms of Non-Brahmanism
Saket Moon Introduction The trope of the unity of the Non-upper caste, Non-Brahman as the vanguard of the socio-political revolution has one that has, at least since Phule, been an important part of the Maharashtrian discourse. So much so that on the eve of the formation of Maharashtra as a state of independent India, …
ना जाती साठी ना मातीसाठी….आमचा लढा संविधानाच्या सन्मानासाठी….
Bhagyesha Kurane लाखोंच्या संख्येने येथे उपस्थित असणाऱ्या सर्व भगिनी व बंधूंना या भीमाच्या लेखणीचा सप्रेम जयभीम मी भाग्येशा कुरणे संविधान सन्मान मोर्च्याच्या निमित्ताने आपणा सर्वांना सम्बोधीत करत आहे.बहीनीनो आणि भावानो काल दिनांक 26 रोजी संविधान दिन सम्पूर्ण देशभरात मोठ्या आनंदाने साजरा झाला व आज दिनांक 27 रोजी संविधानाच्या सन्मानासाठी आपण सर्वजण लाखोंच्या संख्येने रस्त्यावर …
ना जाती साठी ना मातीसाठी….आमचा लढा संविधानाच्या सन्मानासाठी….
Bhagyesha Kurane लाखोंच्या संख्येने येथे उपस्थित असणाऱ्या सर्व भगिनी व बंधूंना या भीमाच्या लेखणीचा सप्रेम जयभीम मी भाग्येशा कुरणे संविधान सन्मान मोर्च्याच्या निमित्ताने आपणा सर्वांना सम्बोधीत करत आहे.बहीनीनो आणि भावानो काल दिनांक 26 रोजी संविधान दिन सम्पूर्ण देशभरात मोठ्या आनंदाने साजरा झाला व आज दिनांक 27 रोजी संविधानाच्या सन्मानासाठी आपण सर्वजण लाखोंच्या संख्येने रस्त्यावर …
The cashlessness of the Bahujan
Kuffir How are you going to break up Caste, if people are not free to consider whether it accords with morality? ~ Babasaheb Ambedkar The saddest joke is Modi’s promotion of a cash-less economy among the ‘poor’. To add insult to injury, the Congressis and the left have again been strengthening the tired narrative …
Dr B. R. Ambedkar: More than the Architect of the Indian Constitution
Naveed Ahmad Lone Introduction Some are born great; some have greatness thrust upon them, and some achieve greatness. Dr Ambedkar best fits in the third category. Dr Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar is among the most outstanding intellectuals of India in the twentieth century. The work in economics by his good self is noteworthy. Dr …
When Rohith Vemula Meets Jignesh Mevani: Towards a Radical Democratic Imaginary
K K Baburaj ‘Live dangerously’, told Nietzsche, one of the great counter-thinkers in the history of modern philosophy. KK Kochu, a well known Dalit writer and political activist from Kerala, in his collection of articles titled ‘Revolution and Culture’ published in the eighties, attempted to rewrite the slogan of Nietzsche as ‘act dangerously’. Such …