For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dr. N. Sukumar A nondescript panchayat village and census town under the administrative jurisdiction of Pune in Maharashtra has unexpectedly turned into the Ground Zero for the ballot battle of 2019. On January 1st 1818, in the village of Koregaon, the army of Peshwa Baji Rao was defeated by the British forces which also comprised …
Dipankar Kamble NAACP stands for National Association for Advancement of Coloured People. It is one of the oldest and most widely recognized civil rights organization founded in the year 1909 by one of a great civil rights leaders, W. E. B. Du Bois. In the year 1908, deadly race riots caused great distress in …
Vinay Shende At the outset, let me say that this is not a film review and I am no expert on the technicalities of film making. I won’t be talking about the plot of the movie. If anyone sees it as only a gangster movie, then they are missing the point. Director Pa Ranjith weaves …
Dr. B Karthik Navayan The recent developments in Pune linked to Bhima Koregaon violence on Ambedkarites: 1) the arrests of five human rights activists 2) unearthing of so-called Maoist letter (fake and absolutely undercooked): these illustrate the structural opposition to Ambedkarite assertion at this point of time in BJP ruled Maharashtra and in the …
Mahipal Mahamatta Citing the example of recent violence on Dalits at Bhim Koregaon in Maharashtra on 1st January 2018, Prahar, a civil rights organisation from Maharashtra, claimed that ongoing attacks on Dalits, minorities and indigenous people are sponsored by the state, which is being run by facist-brahminical forces. Sangharsh Apte, the representative of Prahar, submitted …
Swati Kamble I began writing this piece over a month ago at the dawn of January 5th, after ruminating and having constant monologues with self about the violent attacks against Dalits in Bhima-Koregaon and the hunting down of protesting Dalit youth that followed in the next few days. I struggled to scribble down my …
Somnath Waghamare I am Somnath Waghamare, a documentary filmmaker and a research scholar at the School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before this, I have worked at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. I am associated with the anti-caste, progressive and social movement in Maharashtra. I am interested …
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) १ जानेवारी हा दिवस सर्वांच्या जीवनामध्ये नवीन वर्ष घेऊन येणारा दिवस, नवीन अशा, अपेक्षा, प्रेरणा, संकल्प यांच्या समवेत येणाऱ्या नवीन वर्षाचे स्वागत आणि गेलेल्या वर्षाला निरोप देत सर्वजण आनंद साजरा करतात. त्याच प्रमाणे महाराष्ट्रात डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकरांचे जन्मजात लाखो अनुयायी आणि त्यांच्या विचारांना व आचारांना आत्मसात करून अंगीकरणारे लाखो अनुयायी …
Saunvedan Aparanti I am an inevitable product of my history. It shadows me from the battlefields of Bhima Koregaon to the streets of London outside the Indian Embassy. This is where my history meets my destiny. My name is Saunvedan Aparanti. My ancestors were Mahars, shackled under the yoke of the caste system for …