Dr ಅರುಣ್ಜೋಳದಕೂಡ್ಲಿಗಿ (Arun Joladkudligi) ಕನ್ನಡ ವರ್ಡನೆಟ್ ಯೋಜನೆಯ ಭಾಗವಾಗಿ 2010 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಸೆಮಿನಾರೊಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಬೈ ಐಐಟಿ ಕ್ಯಾಂಪಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ. ಕ್ಯಾಂಪಸ್ಸಿನ ಹೈಟೆಕ್ ವಾತಾವರಣ, ಐಐಟಿಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಸಿರಿವಂತಿಕೆ, ಹಗಲನ್ನು ನಾಚಿಸುವಂತಹ ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಜಗಮಗಿಸುವ ಬೆಳಕು ನನ್ನಂಥವರನ್ನು ಬೆರಗುಗೊಳಿಸಿದ್ದವು. ಉತ್ತರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಕೆಳಸಮುದಾಯದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಇಂಥಹ ಕಡೆ ಕಲಿಯುವುದು ಯಾವಾಗ ಎನ್ನುವ ನಿರಾಸೆಯೊಂದು ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂಡಿತು. ರಾತ್ರಿ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲಿಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಆರು ಹುಡುಗರು ಬೇಟಿಯಾದರು. ವಿಚಾರಿಸಲಾಗಿ ಬಿಟೆಕ್, ಎಂಟೆಕ್, ಎಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಇವರು …
Politics behind Destruction of Memory and History of Ambedkarite Spaces
Sanjeev Kumar and Babasaheb Kambale It’s very rare to witness the demolition of any space of Brahminical importance – for instance, spaces associated with Gandhi, Nehru, Savarkar, and Patel etc. However, it’s very common that the spaces belonging to historical figures who propounded fraternity, equality, freedom and justice for humanity such as Ambedkar, Phule, Periyar, and …
Demystifying Hindu Myths
Arvind Bouddh Is India really a hindu-majority country? And is Hinduism really a religion? You may wonder why I am even asking such questions when they are already well established facts (wait, not facts but notions). Well, for you these are not notions but facts, for a person like me whose identity has always …
The Left and the Ambedkarite Movements need Debate and Unity
Chintu Kumari (This open letter is her response to Chinmaya Mahanand’s earlier letter to her) Dear friend Chinmay, I apologize for the delayed response. As you know I was very weak and unwell after the 16-day long hunger strike and under medication. Still, I don’t feel completely well in terms of my health I attempt …
Afterlife of a Dalit film star
K K Baburaj When a great personality dies, people feel helpless and the country ceases to function. But, after one week, if this great personality returns, he won’t find the job of a city porter. The famous German poet Bertolt Brecht wrote such a poem. Kalabhavan Mani, a Dalit film star and popular singer …
Celebrating Ambedkar, Challenging Hegemony
Rahul Sonpimple Abstract This article aims to understand the recent ‘celebration of Ambedkar’ by the ruling party and other political parties. The article argues that the celebration of Ambedkar by the BJP and RSS is more than an unsuccessful attempt at appropriation, rather it is a socio-political compulsion brought upon by the Dalit-Bahujan struggle …
On immanent tendencies of the Brahmin
Kuffir There have been lots of discussions in the recent past about the rising tendency among the Sanghis to use ‘science’ to justify totally absurd claims about India having invented planes, plastic surgery, cloning etc., thousands of years ago. Were they talking science really? Similarly, if the brahmin left keeps talking about Marxism, are …
Casteism and Ways of Removing Casteism
Mahitosh Mandal Casteism is caste-based prejudice deriving from Brahminical values and giving birth to discrimination and violence against those belonging to the Dalit-Bahujan communities, the ‘marginalized majority’[1] of this country. This is a kind of simple definition. But this has layers of implication. Let us begin with an anecdote that would give us one …
बाबरी से दादरी तक
Sweta Yadav आज़ाद भारत जी हाँ आज़ाद भारत! सिर्फ आज़ाद ही नहीं बल्कि दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा लोकतान्त्रिक देश | लोकतंत्र का जश्न मानते हुए भारत के नागरिकों को लगभग 68 वर्ष गुजर चुके हैं लेकिन आज भी कुछ सवाल जस का तस हमारे सामने मुह बाए खड़े है | समानता का अधिकार देता हमारा …