Prateek Khobragade Tomorrow, I have a date with a lynch mob. The question is: should I appear or not? This question at this moment is as important to resolve for me as it is to breathe. For it is a question about, and has at stake, my existence. And my existence, I proudly believe, …
Caste isn’t a Dalit question, it’s a Brahmin question: Rahul Sonpimple
Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age, Round Table India talks to Rahul Sonpimple, leader of BAPSA (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association), an active political platform of Bahujan students. In the interview, Rahul shares his experiences & views on a variety of subjects–from his childhood in a Nagpur slum, his early …
Ambedkarite vs. Left Debate: A Bahujan Perspective
Ambedkar Reading Group, Delhi University It is summer and the rage to appropriate on the part of the Savarna left parties is more evident than ever, especially in university spaces such as ours. In JNU, they have created BASO, to compete with BAPSA, (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student Association). We also hear of another Bhagat …
Bhagat Singh – whose hero, whose revolutionary?
Gurinder Azad Bhagat Singh was a sensitive person. He could speak, from his own location, on the question of untouchables. He spoke on swaraj. I wonder why no meeting could happen between Babasaheb Ambedkar and him despite both becoming active around the same decade, the 1920s. I think it was because of absolute difference in …