For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Ketaki Chowkhani Last summer, an 18 year old, 12th Std. student approached me to help him out with a project on caste. He was located at an elite school in a small town in South India, and wanted me to teach him for around 4 months, culminating in a presentation of that project. I …
‘Under your fascist skySlowly pants the terrified dalit ghetto.’* Raju Solanki (Raju Solanki is an activist and poet based in Gujarat. These are a few of his notes on Gujarat, the state of Dalits, minorities and other marginalized sections under the Modi regime. They provide keen insights into how ‘Moditva’ works and its …
Six months of land struggle at Arippa Ajith Kumar A S It was on December 31st 2012, that landless people, majority of them being dalits and adivasis, entered 56 acres of revenue land at Arippa in Kollam district of Kerala demanding land rights. Now there are almost 1300 families in the protest land. The …
Six months of land struggle at Arippa Ajith Kumar A S It was on December 31st 2012, that landless people, majority of them being dalits and adivasis, entered 56 acres of revenue land at Arippa in Kollam district of Kerala demanding land rights. Now there are almost 1300 families in the protest land. The …
This is the second part of the interview with P. Sivakami, ex-IAS officer, writer and politician who founded the political party, the ‘Samuga Samatuva Padai’, to work ‘on the principles of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, as a forum for social equality’. She is also the founder of the Dalit Land Rights Movement in Tamil …
Sub-Inspector of Keesara police station, Mr Venkat, was an eye witness to the brutal assault on Dalits in Rampally Dayara: Human Rights Forum ~ To The District Collector and Magistrate Ranga Reddy district, Hyderabad Dear Madam Sub: Attack on dalits (Madigas) of Rampally Dayara JNNURM Colony- assistance to victims of attack-regarding. You are aware …
Asma Rasheed, K. Satyanarayana and Uma Bhrugubanda The suicide of Mudasir Kamran, a Kashmiri research scholar at the EFL University, Hyderabad has been described as “a personal issue” both by the university administration as well as other sections of society. Far from being so, we argue, his death is a symptom of a failure …
On 3rd March, 2013, Sunday9:30 am At St. Xavier’s College, Siddharth Assembly Hall, Narangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Dear Friends,
N. Sukumar and Shailaja Menon A sad day indeed when the news flashed that Afzal Guru who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack was executed. After a lot of dilly dallying when the powers that be accused each other of being soft on terror, Guru was legally encountered to silence the critics. However, the …