For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Anitta Anna Moncy “Our motto is still alive and to the point: pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will”, says Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks. Alpa Shah, the author of ‘Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas’ in her new book ‘The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India’ actualizes this …
Shailesh Narwade When I was asked to write a foreword for this book titled ‘BhimBaba’, I was a little apprehensive of my ability to do so. But when I agreed and started going through its pages, I realized that this book is so important in today’s time. I know Dr Prashant Tambe for more than …
Dr. Anuradha Bele Navayana Buddhism – Context, Debates and Theories by Shaileshkumar Darokar, Subodh N.W. and Bodhi S.R: The Shared Mirror Publishing House, 2022, ISBN: 9788192993058 (Paperback) pp.vi to 120, INR 250. Navayana Buddhism – Context, Debates and Theories, is a 120 page book that engages with a path crafted by Dr. Ambedkar within the …
Vinay D Damodar This book is dedicated to all those struggling for social emancipation and self-respect. I started reading it in the month of January, 2021, and I really liked the book. This life story of a Dalit sociologist inspires you, and also shows the path to some struggling students from marginalised backgrounds. The author …
Salas Shende The story revolves around a (dalit) sociologist and his struggle of going from nothing to a professor in an esteemed institution like Tata Institute of Social Sciences. From Karla village to Mumbai, the journey is quite long. The book describes the village life including the culture, caste and gender based discrimination and rituals. …
Bhangya Bhukya Vemula Yellaiah’s Kakka which was published in Telugu, twenty years ago and now translated in English is a powerful narrative of dalit assertion in Telangana. It is the first novel that ventilates Madiga life struggle closely. Somehow, it did not get its due recognition in Telugu literature as did G. Kalyana Rao’s …
Jackson RK Racism is a face producing machine. It gives a face to the living things, non-living things, and, this time, to an entity that is both a living and a non-living thing at the same time: virus. As the world shrinks into private rooms in the aftermath of the corona-virus pandemic, racism succeeded …
Bhawesh Pant ‘Lived experience’ is growing in popular appeal (Hoerger, 2016). The reasons for this upsurge are ‘emergence of the politics of identity’ (pg.1) and the theoretical failing of different disciplines, in grasping the essence of varied marginalities. The observation pertaining to lived experience is certainly not new, the celebrated tradition like Phenomenology and Feminist …
Prateek Khobragade Dr. Suraj Yengde’s recent book Caste Matters has triggered myriad debates across the class and caste circles the book has reached; an outcome any author would desire and expect. The responses are mixed and important criticisms of the book are making way. An interesting trend I observed in my own peer circle, of …