For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Pranav Kuttaiah Caste is not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula (Ed. Nikhila Henry, Juggernaut Books, 2016) In a speech delivered at Nalgonda in Telangana not so long ago, noted intellectual K.Y. Ratnam said that what Rohith Vemula wrote was not a suicide note, but an introduction to Dr. Ambedkar’s classic ‘Annihilation …
Shafiullah Anis My favourite Biryani meme on social media says ‘I can’t make everyone happy, I am not Biryani!!” Biryani has always been associated with happiness and bliss in pop culture, but when Biryani gets associated with terrorism, I have all the reasons to get upset and invoke that cliché Bollywood tag-line in Biryani’s …
B. R. Bhaskar Prasad was interviewed by Palani Samy and Nidhin Sowjanya for Dalit Camera before the Chalo Udupi rally. The text was translated from Kannada by Savitha Rajamani, Vinod Pushparaj, Chinnamma and Anusha Suresh. The interview was videographed by Karthik Ranganathan. B. R. Bhaskar Prasad is a Dalit writer and activist from Nelamangala taluk, Bengaluru, and one …
Asha Singh In the past few days, I have noticed that a few of my Dalit-Bahujan friends are engaged in an uncritical celebration of Leena Yadav’s feature film titled ‘Parched’. I would like to talk about Parched, based on the content of the film and the interview of the Director conducted by National Dastak.i …
Sky Baaba He sat on a throneand made my Dalits sit on the groundtold my Adivasis to stay at his feetwe folded our hands and stood,bringing palms together was all he ever taught my people;changing religion was a rebellionmy people stood shoulder to shoulderand entered mosques and churches; The above excerpt from Sky Baaba’s …
This is the second part of the three-part series ‘Dialogue with BAPSA’. Please read the first part here. Khalid Anis Ansari In the context of the dialogue with BAPSA on its problematic association with the Muslim Right, as exemplified by Jamaat’s student wing SIO, I feel the argument on Muslim theo-politics and caste advanced …
ಹಾರೋಹಳ್ಳಿರವೀಂದ್ರ (Harohalli Ravindra) ಉಗ್ರ ಹಿಂದುತ್ವವಾದಿ ವಿ.ಡಿ. ಸಾವರ್ಕರ್ “ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಭಾರತ ದೇಶ ಪಿತೃಭೂಮಿಯಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಪುಣ್ಯ ಭೂಮಿಯು ಆಗಿದಿಯೊ ಆತನೇ ಹಿಂದೂ” ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾಗಿ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಮರನ್ನು, ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತರನ್ನು, ಪಾರಸಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಯಹೂದ್ಯರನ್ನು ಹೊರಗಿಡುವುದು ಮತ್ತು ಬೌದ್ಧ, ಜೈನ, ಸಿಖ್ಖರನ್ನು ಒಳತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳು ಇದ್ದವು ಎಂದು ಸುರೇಶ್ ಭಟ್ ಬಾಕ್ರಬೈಲು ಅವರ ‘ಕೇಸರಿ ಭಯೋತ್ಪಾದನೆ’ ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕರ್ಮ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ಜಾತಿ ಪದ್ದತಿ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ಣವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಸಂರಚನೆಯನ್ನೇ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಹಿಂದೂಧರ್ಮ ಸಾವರ್ಕರ್ ಅಂತವರ …
Christina Thomas Dhanaraj “The oppressor is solidary with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labor — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and …
Pruthviraj Rama Gorakh On the 13th of July, an incident of brutal rape and murder took place in Kopardi village of Ahmadnagar district in Maharashtra, and shook up the state socio-politically. A 15-year-old girl had been raped and murdered by three men from the same locality. The act was a height of perversion in …