Prof Mahesh Chandra Guru ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡಳಿತ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಶ್ರೀ ನರೇಂದ್ರಮೋದಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಭಾರತದ ಶೋಷಿತರ ಪಾಲಿಗೆ ನರಕದ ಕೂಪವಾಗಿದೆ. 2014ರಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಬಿಹಾರ, ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶ, ರಾಜಸ್ಥಾನ, ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಬಹುಜನ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಯುಪಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ನಿಷ್ಕ್ರಿಯತೆಯಿಂದ ಬೇಸತ್ತು ಹೊಸ ಭರವಸೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟಕ್ಕೆ ಅತ್ಯಧಿಕ ಬಹುಮತವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದರು. ಆದರೆ ಬಹುಜನರ ಆಹಾರ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಬದುಕುವ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕ ಸಂಘದ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನದಲ್ಲಿ …
Where are the professional dalits in the media?
Dinesh Aminmattu [This is the text of the speech ‘Inclusivity of professional dalits in the media”(ಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವೃತ್ತಿಪರ ದಲಿತರ ಒಳ್ಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ’) delivered in Kannada by Dinesh Aminmattu at an event, organised by the Karnataka SC/ST editors association to celebrate 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, on 18th July 2016] If I am asked who my role model is …
Police firing on Adivasis & Dalits in Kandhamal: State Repression as Normalcy
Jadumani Mahanand I was born in a hill area of Kandhamal. In a small hamlet in a remote region surrounded by mountains, where there are no basic facilities which a modern state promises to ensure its citizens. There is no electricity, no proper road communication, no school to get education, no adequate work for wages …
Dalits and Social Media
Anitya Sanket Since the commencement of social networking and its popularization in India, the Indian masses have successfully exploited it, so much so that today we are the third largest online population in the world with 73.9 million people. Out of all, this has benefitted the marginalized communities the most. The Dalit community which …
Learning from Ambedkar: Who’s really standing with the Dalits now?
Nilesh Kumar “The reason for their anger is very simple. Your behaving on par with them insults them”.~ Dr. Ambedkar Recent history The University of Hyderabad (UOH) student Mr. Rohith Vemula (26), PhD scholar committed suicide on 17th January 2016. Hailing from Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, Rohith came from a marginalized poor Dalit …
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 …
Caste is pervasive and even so during disaster
ICDA Team ICDA’s team finds Caste Discrimination Rampant in Distribution of Relief The coastal districts including Cuddalore have been severely affected by the recent floods following an unprecedented level of heavy rains. Though everyone has been affected, it was found that the Dalits were more affected, NGO accounts, newspaper reports and reports by social activists …
Why is Our engagement a positive one
Georgy Kuruvila Roy Oppression or freedom? One should ask a very pertinent question to anyone who claims to be a representative of a movement or a theoretical discourse: do you believe in it because you base yourself on oppression or you base yourself on freedom? This question is pertinent because the answer can lead to …
Ambedkar’s Children and Conversion In the time of Ghar Wapsi
B. Prabakaran “A religion which does not recognize man as man is not religion but a disease” ~ Dr. Ambedkar. Gujarat government has retracted four lakh books on Ambedkar titled, Rashtriya Mahapursh Bharat Ratna Ambedkar, the standard title used by Hindu groups for Ambedkar, which was expected to be given out to school students across the …