For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sanam Roohi Between 2014 and 2016, I spent long hours of my days sitting on the first floor lounge of the IISc library, either working on my thesis, or publications, or reading something. The relaxed seating arrangements, beautiful trees that peer at you from three sides of the lounge, and, above all, the portrait …
Ratnesh Katulkar Buddhism is one of the most prominent topics in the study of ancient Indian history. The reason for its presence and visibility in Indian history owes to its existence to a wide time scale traversed during the 6th century BC to 11th century AD. There is no doubt that many special and …
Kadhiravan ~ An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared. There should be varied and free points of contact with other modes of association. In other …
Deepak Kumar On 26th January 1950, India became a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic. On that day, the Constitution of India was enacted, adopted and given to the Indian people i.e., “we the people of India”. The birth of the Republic on the twenty sixth of January 1950 was a moment of equal, …
Ayaz Ahmad In the wake of upcoming assembly polls, the question of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is being debated with traditional appeal to religious identity of Muslims & Hindus in their respective constituencies. From the vantage point of Pasmanda, the question of UCC is raised to create the binary of Hindu versus Muslim in …
Kavita Bhanot [Excerpts from the talks given at SOAS and Manchester launch of Hatred in the belly: The politics behind the appropriation of Dr Ambedkar’s writings] For some years now, I’ve been thinking, talking about white supremacy, the ways in which it is present and normalised in every aspect of our lives in the …
Bansidhar Deep Indira Gandhi used the “Garibi Hatao” rhetoric to defend her contempt for constitutional morality, while the present BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government uses the rhetoric of “Sabka Vikas” and “Shreshth Bharat” to adopt the same cynical approach (Suhas Palshikar, Indian Express July 15, 2016). There was a time when India, after independence, …
Sardar Ajmer Singh This article is an excerpt from S. Ajmer Singh’s book “Biswi Sadi Ki Sikh Rajneeti: Ek Ghulami Se Dusri Ghulami Tak” (The Sikh Politics of the 20th Century: From One Slavery to Another) On the circumstances emerging after the partition of Punjab, and the creation of a Self-ruled Sikh state After …
ದಿಲೀಪ್ ನರಸಯ್ಯ ಎಮ್ (Dileep Narasaiah) ಇಡೀ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದಲ್ಲಿ ತಮ್ಮದೇ ವಿದ್ವತ್ತಿನಿಂದ ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಚಾಪನ್ನು ಮೂಡಿಸಿ, ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಮಾನವತಾವಾದಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಜ್ಞರಾಗಿ ಗಮನ ಸೆಳೆದವರು ಡಾ.ಬಿ.ಆರ್.ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್. ಆದರೆ ಜಾತಿಯ ಮತ್ತು ಧರ್ಮದ ಸಂಕೋಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಲುಕಿ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡು ದೂರ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿದವರಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟರೆ ಬಹುಶಃ ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ಯಾವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಕಾಣಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಯಾವತ್ತಿನಿಂದ ಅಸ್ಪೃಶ್ಯತೆ ಆಚರಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಜಾತಿ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಹೋರಾಟ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರೋ ಅಂದಿನಿಂದ ಇಂದಿನವರೆಗೂ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಅಸ್ಪೃಶ್ಯ ಅಥವಾ ದಲಿತ ನಾಯಕರೆಂದು ಗುರುತಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. …