Dr. Narendra Kumar Arya While the nation is aflame and furious, against the inhumane persecution caused by brahminical system prevalent in our public institutions leading to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, the coverage of Yashica Dutt’s revelations as a Dalit journalist has also been given importance (in NDTV, BBC Hindi, Indian Express, The Huffington Post …
Call for Papers: Seminar on ‘Most Marginalised Dalits: Mobilizations and Struggles for Justice’
Call for Research Papers For a ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on Most Marginalised Dalits: Mobilizations and Struggles for Justice On 29-30 March, 2016G.B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, UP Concept Note There are series of democratic struggles within Dalits by most marginalized Dalits for greater recognition and redistribution from mid of the 1990s in …
Towards Dalit consciousness
Yogesh Maitreya Pedagogy of the past I consider the post-1990 era as the age that tied up nationalism with Indian academia, not only through the syllabus but also through restructuring daily affairs of our student life. I was a student who entered school in 1990. From the days of my schooling, I can clearly …
Remembering Babasaheb: Ambedkar Jayanti Celebrations At CSSSC
On 23rd April, 2014 1.00 pm onwards at CSSSC campus, Baishnabghata Patuli, Kolkata This April 14 is the first time that Government of India declared a national holiday to mark Babasaheb’s birth anniversary. This act must be seen not only in the context of the elections underway in the country but also as part …
Of Caste Massacres and Judicial Impunity: Bloodstains in Bathani Tola and Laxmanpur Bathe…
Anand Teltumbde (Text of the Third Comrade Naveen Babu Memorial Lecture, delivered by Anand Teltumbde) At the outset let me thank DSU for giving me this opportunity to pay my homage to comrade Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, who was martyred at the young age of 35 in Andhra Pradesh. I personally knew Naveen as a …
The Judge, the Jury and the Goddess
Akshay Pathak बड़ा हुआ तो क्या हुआ जैसे पेड़ खजूरपंथी को छाया नहीं फल लागे अति दूर ~ कबीर Of what use is stature, much like a date tree,Offers no shade for travellers, its fruit beyond reach. ~ Kabir May in Bikaner is a very hot and dry month. But regular gusts of dust-laden …
Overshadowed….
Pradnya Jadhav Bhimabai said: “It has been always ‘my’ honour to be known as the wife of my husband…, I am seen as responsible for raising his children and caring for his family… I am also seen as a great support to him, he always… always praised me for my humble nature, cooking for …
‘No Alphabet in Sight’: Understanding Caste Formulations After 1990s
Understanding caste formulations after 1990s: Review of ‘No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India’ (This review is a part of the theory course taught by Dr Bhangya Bhukya, Department of Social Exclusion Studies, English and Foreign Languages University) Karthik Navayan Caste is interpreted in different schools of thought in different ways; …
Raju Pulyala’s martyrdom: Ambedkar Students Association appeals to all students
[Via Prashant Kamla] Ambedkar Students Association (ASA), University of Hyderabad, appeals to all SC, ST, OBC and Minorities students and Dalit students organisations in various universities all over the India to condemn and show their resentment against this systemic killing of Scheduled Caste students in University of Hyderabad. Till what point of time they …