C Ahamed Fayiz A Dalit MPhil scholar has been brutally assaulted by SFI activists at Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam Campus. Vivek Kumaran from Kalady, who is a research student at School of Gandhian Thoughts was violently attacked and is now admitted at the surgical section of Kottayam Medical College, said Gandhi Nagar SI M.G …
Post-Truth Politics and Dalit Question
Vinod Kumar The world is moving in a new direction in its political spectrum. Most of the old, developed democracies have come under the influence of the right wing forces with populist images where people are drawn towards personalities and emotions rather than facts and good policies. Recently, this changing political dimension has been …
Youth for Self and Social Change (YSSC): A Journey
Payal Rama Nagpur is the winter capital and the third largest city in the state of Maharashtra. It is also one of the prominent cities in Central India. Before the formation of the state of Maharashtra, Nagpur was part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Under the British rule, it was one of the …
The Circle That Is Losing Its Centre : Ambedkarite Poetry of Our Time
Yogesh Maitreya Dalit poetry in Maharashtra has been recently going through a transition. However, there are only a few poets who have managed to catch this transition in their poems. Some of them turned inward and explored the subject matter of their personal conflicts with the world. Others have managed to make the dialectical …
ಆದಿವಾಸಿಗಳ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ ಜೇನುಕುರುಬರ ಸೋಮಣ್ಣ
ಜನರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ಸಮಿತಿ & ಡಾ. ಎ ಎಸ್ ಪ್ರಭಾಕರ ಆತ್ಮೀಯರೇ, ನಾಡಿನ ತಳಸಮುದಾಯಗಳ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯೊಬ್ಬರೆಂದೇ ಹೇಳಬಹುದಾದ *ಜೇನುಕುರುಬರ ಸೋಮಣ್ಣ* ಅವರಿಗೆ ಲಾಭಿಕೋರ, ಭ್ರಷ್ಟವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯು ಅನ್ಯಾಯವೆಸಗಿ, ಅಪಮಾನಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ಸಲದ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗೆ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಆದವರ ಪಟ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆದಿವಾಸಿ ಸಾಧಕ, ಅವಿರತ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರ, ಅದ್ಭುತ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾವಂತ ಸೋಮಣ್ಣ ಅವರ ಹೆಸರಿತ್ತು. ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ನಾಡಿನ ನೂರಾರು ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾವಂತ ಮನಸುಗಳು ಸಂತಸಗೊಂಡು ಸೋಮಣ್ಣ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಅಭಿನಂದನೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದವು. ಅದರೆ, ಕಾಣದ ಕೈಗಳು ಇದ್ದಕ್ಕಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಸೋಮಣ್ಣ …
Are the Hindutva leaders ready to debate the state of Dalits?
Abhay Kumar With the UP Assembly Elections (2017) drawing closer, the Hindutva leaders have started shedding tears for Dalits. Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in which he said that one may attack him but not his Dalit brothers, BJP National Executive Member Sanjay Paswan wrote an opinion piece in The Indian Express …
Bojja Tharakam (1939-2016): ‘I think of myself as both an Ambedkarite and a Marxist’
We thank Prof K. Satyanarayana for sharing this note with Round Table India. [Senior Advocate, Poet, Writer, Activist and Public intellectual Shri Bojja Tharakam (77) passed away last night (September 16th) around 10.45 pm in his flat in Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad. He has been under treatment for brain tumour for the last two years. …
Chalo Udupi
Dalit and Oppressed Self-respect Movement Committee Friends and Well-wishers, Dalit and progressive organisations held a meeting in Freedom Park on 26th August to lay the foundation for a social movement in the wake of rising assaults on dalits, minorities, women and the oppressed. The participants, nearly 250 of them, had elaborate discussions and decided …
If it’s the Oppressed, it’s Identity Politics, but if it’s you, it’s a Talent Show!
Rajesh Chandra Kumar It is not whether we win or lose. The main thing is that we had to show our presence in the so- called progressive institution of JNU with the slogan of our forefathers –Jai Birsa, Jai Phule and Jai Bhim. This time, the opposition feared BAPSA, and salute to BAPSA for …