For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sumit Turuk Jai Bhim was never a slogan among the “progressives”, who are in fact regressive, of JNU until around mid 2015. It grew louder among them post Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder, considering the imminent threat of Dalit Bahujan Student assertion which started gaining a much powerful form across campuses in India. The anti-caste …
Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age series, Round Table India talks to Prof. Khalid Anis Ansari, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Exclusion Studies & Transformative Action (ACESTA), Glocal University, Uttar Pradesh. The interview focuses on the Pasmanda movement, on the issues of secularism/communalism and on the upper caste hegemony in all …
Nitin Dhaktode Some peopleBorn in the socially marginalised community,Forget their rootsSpend their life practising slaveryThe bootlickers of the oppressor casteOppressors from Right, Left, Centre, Liberal etc. Never forgetThey will use and throw you.They will make sure you are their slaves forever,The day you talk aboutYour Dignity, Leadership, Empowerment,Challenge their oppressionYou will be their biggest …
Anilkumar PV There is no other grand claim about history as that of Hegel’s inimitable remark: “God is God only in so far as he knows himself.” It was Marx who liberated thought from the idealism of Hegel and placed it in the materiality of the productive relations of history. And, as we all …
Uma Tanuku The video documentation of protest demo against organized by BAPSA to get justice for the Institutional Murder of Muthukrishnan (Rajni Krish) held on 16th March 2017. Video 1. Thallapelli Praveen addressing the protest meet. {youtube}2T_o_F9nSUE{/youtube} Video 2. Rahul Sonpimple addressing the protest meet. {youtube}H7LqzBJNPcQ{/youtube} Video 3. Vikas Kumar Moola addressing the protest meet. …
Rakesh Ram S Vinayakan, a Dalit actor from Kerala, began his career as a dancer and has been an actor for more than 20 years now in Malayalam and other south Indian movies. Initially he played small roles, but the many strong characters that he did in recent times have given him a large …
Dwija Aami and Sreerag Poickadan Malayalam actor Vinayakan has received the Kerala State government’s Best Actor Award 2016 for the Malayalee film Kammatpadam, recently. His interview by Jimmy James in Asianet News television channel for the programme ‘Point Blank’ on March 13, 2017, became viral on social media owing to his bold answers, straightforwardness and …
Hemangi Kadlak It is said that those who come from poor socio-economic backgrounds have a stronger fighting spirit because of the need for survival. Then why are some students from these sections committing suicide when they enter the big universities of India? Do their expectations of themselves or the university or society go much …
BAPSA, JNU The appalling pamphlet put out by ABVP calling for a protest outside CHS against Rajini Krish’s death is absolutely uncalled for. We unequivocally reject the politically manipulative and conniving concern extended by the Killers of Rohith Vemula and Assaulters of Najeeb Ahmed. It is a dangerous sign of the future to come. …