For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Chanchal Kumar Our parents shielded us from any candid discussion on caste while growing up, perhaps believing that if the monster was not mentioned, it would simply cease to exist. Another way to look at it could be that they tried to warn us but we were too busy to pay attention and too …
[Via Murali Shanmugavelan] We invite you to the London launch of ‘Hatred in the belly: Politics behind the appropriation Dr Ambedkar’s writings‘ by the Ambedkar Age Collective on 6th June, 2016, at SOAS, University of London, Russell Square campus. The book is the powerful response by a number of Dalit-Bahujan writers to Arundhati Roy’s ‘much-needed-introduction’ …
Dalit Panthers (Baroda) initiates a Discussion on: ‘Appropriation of Ambedkar’s writings and recent debates’ at 6.00 p.m on 14th April, 2014, at Ambedkar Bhavan, behind Alkapuri Arcade, R. C. Dutt Road, Alkapuri, Vadodara-390007. Participants
On Sunday, 21st July 2013 at 5.30 pm Venue: Navbharat Mat. School, Solaiyappan St., Periyar road, T.Nagar, Chennai, (Kodambakkam – Valluvar Kottam route). ‘Dalit Youth Federation’ calls for discussion on the following: *Violence on Dalits – Lessons & Mistakes *Revisiting the Need for Dr. Ambedkar *Unity Among Dalits *Future Course of Dalit Politics Special …
Gurinder Azad for Neel Kranti Media The Joint Action Front for Democratic Education has been agitating against the new Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced by the Delhi University. The Front held a public discussion on 31 May, 2013, in Delhi, at which a number of eminent teachers and intellectuals spoke against the new …
Discussion on Friday, 31 May, 2013, at India International Centre, New Delhi. Joint Action Front for Democratic Education Delhi University is going to introduce Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) without a national debate on its merits or demerits. We believe that the education policy must be uniform in the country and should be decided …
DABMSA, TSA, PDSU, BSF and TVV invite you for a Seminar and Discussion on “Cultural Politics of Religious Festivals in India: The Popular and the Secular” Speakers: Prof. Kancha Ilaiah, MANU University, Hyderabad
by Bobby Kunhu I have not watched Aarakshan. I am an unapologetic advocate of free speech. And I generally do not like writing about what I do not know. But then this piece is not about Aarakshan, but about dominant discussions about the movie from newsroom discussions to (English) newspaper headlines. And most of the …