For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Mallepalli Lakshmaiah There is nothing new in the social scientist, Ashis Nandy’s formulation that “most of the corrupt” people in India “come from the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) and the Scheduled Castes (SC), and now increasingly Scheduled Tribes (ST)”. Those defending Nandy as an original thinker and so-called public intellectual may be reminded of …
Jyotsna Siddharth Renowned sociologist, Ashis Nandy’s comment at Jaipur Literature Festival that ‘it is a fact, that most of the corrupt come from the OBCs, Scheduled castes and now increasingly certain tribes’ once again reiterates the fact that casteism is very much prevalent in India. As India celebrated its 64th Republic Day on 26th …
Protest against Caste Discrimination in Educational Institutions in New Delhi on 11:30 am, 19th October, 2012 (Friday), at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi The Commission [NCSC] should initiate Legal action, including the suspension from job, permissible under the law, including the prevention of Atrocities Against the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,1989, against Dr. V.K. Sharma ,former Principal …
United Dalit Students’ Forum (UDSF), JNU Invites You To ‘Caste Discrimination in Higher Educational Institutions‘ A public lecture by Prof. B. L. Mungekar & Screening of ‘The Death of Merit‘ (A Documentary on Dalit Students’ Suicides in Higher Educational Institutions) Date : 26 September, 2012 (Wed) Time : 5 pm Venue : SSS –I Committee …
Meeting to support our students in Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, and to demand implementation of Prof Mungekar’s Report, at 4.00 p.m., on 22nd September, Saturday, at Sutluj Hostel Mess, JNU (Message from Anoop Kumar, Insight Foundation) Dear Friends, I am writing this note regarding enormous caste discrimination faced by Dalit & Adivasi medical …
Neel Kranti Media On 6 September 2012, the National Commission of Scheduled Castes held a press conference at its office at Khan Market, New Delhi, regarding the complaints of rampant caste discrimination in Vardhman Medical College, New Delhi. It is to be noted that the Dalit and Adivasi students of this medical college have been …
Nilesh Kumar [This is the second part of his article on caste and epistemic violence. The first part explored how the Ambedkar cartoon in the NCERT text book was a metaphor for epistemic violence. Here, he tries to explain how the cartoon is just one more illustration of how entrenched violence is in academia; one …
Dalits in Nepal: Politically Manufactured Karma The facts on the ground Suresh Singh (First published in Insight magazine in 2005) Dalits are groups of people considered as ritually impure and imagined as living apart from the “mainstream society”. This poorly understood community is called untouchables or Dalit, a term borrowed from India. The literal meaning …
Via Ratnesh Kumar Insight Foundation in collaboration with Academic Forum for Social Justice invites you for a discussion on “Caste discrimination in Delhi University admissions” Date: 19th August 2012 (Sunday) Time: 9am to 1pm Venue: Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi