For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Omprakash Mahato If voters have voted the way they have voted, we cannot but agree with Mill’s view that India is unfit for democracy. Prior to the exit poll report, no one in the ruling party including Modi and Amit Shah himself would have been sure of such an easy victory. The common narration that …
Umar N The Malayalam speaking Muslims of Kerala, often mythically trace their lineage to Arab merchants traveling to the West Coast of India, and evangelical sojourners in the post-Islamic phase, who won royal patronage and sometimes married local women and settled down. In the course of time, the community has been buffeted by the winds …
G Gomathi Dear Friends, I am contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections which is to be held on 23rd April 2019 from the Idukki constituency. In the current political scenario, we realise more and more the significance of Dr B R Ambedkar’s political vision that until and unless the ex-untouchables get political power, the exclusion …
Amit Kumar In post-independence India, there are many names that have made a deep imprint on Indian politics. Kanshi Ram Saheb is one of the tallest figures who not only changed the political vocabulary but became the voice of that groups which have been neglected historically for a long time. In a true sense, he …
Nirban Ray As the 2019 parliamentary election of India is coming near, the idea of India at the same time is becoming more precious. The supposed to be organically antagonistic, oppositional forces – BJP and Congress, the major players of the game of electoral democracy, is coming as it always had been, to a …
Sudam Rathod Indian politics for a long time was under the unilateral rule of Congress party because of which other democratic and secular parties could not expand and develop themselves. Secular politics or secularism had been considered the sole property of Congress. Therefore, other such parties with a secular progressive ideology had no space …
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes This is a transcript of the first video in the series of interviews Dalit Camera had documented in Kerala on the flood relief operations. The video was taken by Dr. Ravichandran Bathran; translation was done by Anish. {youtube}MDoxskKejSA{/youtube} Interviewee 1 When I went to the camp, I saw that the …
Pranav Kuttaiah The Karnataka elections of 2018 will be remembered for a number of reasons. Notwithstanding the post-election drama of hastily built coalitions, gubernatorial bias, midnight hearings at the Supreme Court, attempted horse-trading, floor tests and everything in-between, the election itself provided enough fodder to have political scientists scratching their heads trying to make sense …
Shiveshwar Kundu RSS-BJP synergy is ruling the Indian political system and is at the zenith of its political career. Since the proclamation of the idea called ‘Congress system’ by an eminent political theorist, Rajni Kothari, Indian political system is witnessing the emergence of a similar political formation which can be likewise termed as BJP …