Jyoti Bania & Ashok Danavath Shashi Tharoor is the fox that Malcolm X warned of Shashi Tharoor, a Nair liberal, member of the Indian Parliament (MP) and author of many books made many inaccurate, controversial and contradictory comments in a recent talk on Ambedkar: The Quest for Equality held on June 13, 2023, at Selwyn …
The Life And Times Of Jaipal Singh Munda
(Biographical Account Of Jaipal Singh Munda Based On The Book ‘The Life And Times Of Jaipal Singh Munda’ By Santosh Kiro) Mohit Singh “You cannot teach democracy to the tribal people; you have to learn democratic ways from them.” On 19 December 1946, Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda roared these words in the Constituent Assembly …
Advocate Bhagwan Das and his book ‘Main Bhangi Hun’
Dhamma Darshan Nigam This article is an attempt, one, to bring Advocate Bhagwan Das’s already popular book ‘Main Bhangi Hun’ to the light one more time; two, to look at a few of the present problems of sanitation workers and contextualize them with what Das has argued in this book as contemporary; and three, to …
Navayana Buddhism – Context, Debates and Theories
The Shared Mirror PRE RELEASE COPY Navayāna Buddhism Context, Debates and Theories shaileshkumar darokar subodh n.w bodhi s.r Published by Dedicated to all members of the Navayāna Buddhist Sangha The Shared Mirror Publishing House The Shared Mirror Publishing House shall endeavour to promote Dalit Bahujan literature and writers. It …
Documenting Bahujan Musical Instruments
Dr. Chandraiah Gopani The book under review entitled ‘Mula Dhwani’ (Aboriginal Sound) is edited by Jayadhir Thirumal Rao and Guduru Manoja. This book was released in 2019, both in Telugu and English with the same title. In the absence of studies on Bahujan Musical Traditions, the book is a unique work in documenting more than …
The Brahmin Is Back!
S. M. Dhabarde Once upon a time there was a Brahmin journalist. Let us call him Happy Sage. Happy Sage was extremely happy with his own life. Why wouldn’t he be –he was born with knowledge! As a journalist, Happy was extremely pained and distressed to see the ‘degraded’ status of his caste fellows …
Why ‘Radical Dalit’ Yengde is Anti-Ambedkarism: JNU student group
Krittika Aveira Mondal, Deeksha Rahul, Deepak Kumar, Surendra Wankhede, Archana Rahul Khupte, Vruttant Manwatkar and Piyush Kant We are concerned about the growing problem of the commercialization of the Ambedkarite movement. This problem is of selling of victimhood in the name of “Radical Dalitism”, and the pessimism regarding the revolutionary and radical nature of the …
Mahad: The March That’s Launched Every Day – Order Now!
The Shared Mirror Publishing House Our new book, Mahad: The March That’s Launched Every Day, from the pioneering human rights activist, Dalit thinker and Ambedkarite leader, Bojja Tharakam (1939-2016), is ready to be ordered. Mahad and the erasure of real history How did mainstream Indian history miss such a watershed event that subterraneously set the …
On Bojja Tharakam’s “Mahad: The March That Is Launched Every Day”
Mangesh Dahiwale As Babasaheb Ambedkar remarked once, and I am going to paraphrase, India is united in terms of castes. Caste is the unwritten law that is practiced throughout India. That is why the rebellion against caste must take place wherever it exists. Many people responded to the caste based discrimination throughout India. They …