For An Informed Ambedkar Age
ಮಂಜುನಾಥ ನರಗುಂದ (Manjunath Naragund) ಕಾರ್ಲ್ ಮಾರ್ಕ್ಸ್ ನ “History repeats itself. First as tragedy, second as farce” ಎನ್ನುವ ಮಾತು ಸದ್ಯ ರೋಹಿತ್ ವೇಮುಲಾ ಮತ್ತು ರಜಿನಿ ಕ್ರಿಷ್ ಅವರ ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ಹತ್ಯೆಗಳ ಚಿತ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.ಇವರಿಬ್ಬರ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಮುನ್ನ ಇಂತಹವೇ ಹಲವು ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗಳು ವಿವಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಾಗಲೂ ಅವು ಸೀಮಿತ ಚೌಕಟ್ಟಿನೊಳಗೆ ಬಂಧಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದವು. ಆದರೆ, ರೋಹಿತನ ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ಸೀಮಿತ ಸಂಕೋಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಿತ್ತು ತನ್ನ ಒಳಸಂಕಟದ ಬೇಗುದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಜಗದಗಲ ತೆರೆದಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು …
Periyar Bhim Vemula Another Dalit scholar has committed suicide, this time in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Muthukrishnan (27), a self-made student, who travelled all the way to Delhi from Salem was pushed to this state by this society, this empire called India. What are the reasons for his suicide? Muthukrishnan had written a small post …
ಡೆರಿಕ್ ಫ಼್ರಾಂಸಿಸ್ (ಪೆರಿಯಾರ್ ಭೀಮ್ ವೆಮುಳಾ) ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ದಲಿತ ವಿದ್ವಾಂಸನ ಕ್ರೂರ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಜವಹರ್ಲಾಲ್ ನೆಹರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ. ಸೇಲಮ್ ನಿಂದ ದಹಲಿಯ ವರೆಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದಿಂದ ಬಂದ 27 ವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ಮುತ್ತುಕೃಷ್ಣನ್ ಇಂತಹ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ತಳ್ಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟದ್ದು ನಮಗೆ, ಈ ಭಾರತ ಎನ್ನುವ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಅವಮಾನಕರ ವಿಶಯ. ಅವನ ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವೇನು? ಮುತ್ತುಕೃಷ್ಣನ್, ತನ್ನ ಸಾವಿನ ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳ ಮುಂಚೆ Facebookಅಲ್ಲಿ ತನ್ನ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅಸಮಾನತೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸೂಚನೆಯನ್ನು ಬರೆದ್ದಿದ್ದರು. ಆ …
Joint pamphlet by BAPSA, SIO, YFDA on the occasion of Rohith’s Shahadat Din [Distributed for ‘Resistance March’ against Institutionalized Brahmanism on 16 January 2017 in JNU, New Delhi] The institutional murder of Rohith Vemula and the enforced disappearance of Najeeb Ahmad reveal that agents of Brahmanical Fascism in universities have selected students from marginalized …
Trevor Jeyaraj All our efforts towards justice seems like a Sisyphean quest. Rolling one pain over another and trying to overcome the present in an effort to heal the scars of the past is back-breaking, mind-numbing and soul-drowning. We are caught between losing focus when we have a purpose and loosing purpose when we …
N Sukumar & Shailaja Menon In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 sugarcane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. Each …
Vruttant Manwatkar “Your salvation must lie in your own hands, through your own efforts”.~ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ‘Bole India – Jai Bhim’- This is the title of a low budget Marathi movie which is under production by Shree Gayatri Films. The movie is one of the first ones made in the memory of …
[Via Rahul Sonpimple] We, the nine suspended students of JNU spoke with the Press at the Press Club of India, on the issue of social justice. Below is the press release of all the events and the movement for social justice. We the undersigned students of JNU wish to bring it to the public …
Anoop Kumar I believe every educational institution in this country, especially the so called ‘national’ ones have been deliberately designed in a way to exclude the majority of Indians and to term them as ‘non meritorious’ at the expense of a very small upper caste English speaking elite. It is a conspiracy. It is …