कैलाश वानखेड़े लेखक, कहानीकार, कवि एवं दलित चिंतक ओम प्रकाश वाल्मीकि जी के निधन पर लेखक कैलाश वानखेड़े द्वारा संकलित श्रद्धांजलि सन्देश जो कि फेसबुक पर लोगों ने वाल्मीकि जी को याद करते हुए लिखे. ~ मेरे पिताजी का देहांत 1 मार्च 1983 को हो गया था. मेरा जन्म 01-03-1973 का है, हिसांब लगा …
FYUP will cause the entire higher education system to collapse: Jenny Rowena
Gurinder Azad for Neel Kranti Media In the continuing series of protests against the Four Year Undergraduate Program (FYUP) several students groups, including Students’ Union of India and UDSF of Jawaharlal Nehru University, with several activists and faculty groups demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Human Resource Development today i.e. on 11th June, …
Lal Singh Dil, the lonely revolutionary
Gurinder Azad Lal Singh Dil, a Dalit and a poet of renown in Punjab, was called ‘Dil’ by his friends and admirers. He was a man of many parts: poet, writer, struggler, a wandering gypsy, but always a loner. In the course of his Dalit-life, he got entangled with the Naxalite movement but disentangled …
It’s a myth that govt wants to implement egalitarian policies: A. K. Maurya
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 …
The State says ‘Achcha rape hua hai, take this money and get lost’: Asha Kowtal
Asha Kowtal has been seeking, organizing and raising the voice of Dalit women across India and the world. As General Secretary of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) she has been actively working to mobilize Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, across states – from Dabra in Haryana to Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu …
Delhi University is not Dinesh Singh’s jagir: Udit Raj
Gurinder Azad for Neel Kranti Media The Joint Action Front for Democratic Education (JAFDE), the Alliance for Social Justice (AFSJ) and other organizations called for a demonstration in front of Sonia Gandhi’s residence in New Delhi on 19th May, 2013, against Delhi University’s anti-SC/ST/OBC ‘Four Years Undergradutate Program’ (FYUP). In this demonstration, students from …
FYUP will create a new caste system: Dr. N. Sukumar
Neel Kranti Media Gurinder Azad of Neel Kranti Media, interviews Dr N Sukumar, Prof, Delhi University on the ongoing protests against the new FYUP system in Delhi University. Teachers and students from Delhi University and elsewhere have been analyzing the implications of the FYUP on SC, ST and OBC students and have come together …
Protest against Casteist Delhi University
Neel Kranti Media Delhi University is well known for its caste based discrimination against SC/ST/OBCs. To loot the seats of dalit-bahujans is its every year program. Not just this, several vacancies pertaining to SC/ST/OBCs are lying vacant for several years. The heap of backlog has gone high. Roster system is another area where obstacles …
Land is not ancestral property, it has to change hands: Sivakami
P. Sivakami, a role model for young dalit adivasi and bahujan women, spent two days at the National Dalit and Adivasi Women’s Congress interacting with students and fellow activists. She is an ex-IAS officer, writer and politician who founded a political party, the ‘Samuga Samatuva Padai‘, to work ‘on the principles of Dr Bhim …