Shiveshwar Kundu One of the promises of modern and secular politics is to do justice in society. For settling any vexed question of politics in a society, first, it is imperative to deal with the procedural part of the question then its substantive part will automatically come into the scene. Here procedural part means, …
Celebrating Dhamma Chakra Anupravartan Day: An Urgency, with Reason
Prabuddha Council, JNU “Religion in the sense of morality must remain the governing principle of every society” – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Engendering violence of any kind, anywhere, is a great threat to humanity as well as the environment. Suffering pervades all and is causal to the deteriorating conditions of society. Hope seems to be …
Project Heartland 2: Meet the men who started the Una movement
Pratik Parmar Project Heartland captures the struggle of people from marginalised communities, mainly Dalits in Gujarat. It shows the courage and determination of Dalit women and men to assert for their rights despite all odds. By capturing these stories of struggle, Project Heartland wants these brave people to be known, recognised and be seen as inspiration to …
Project Heartland
Pratik Parmar Project Heartland captures the struggle of people from marginalised communities mainly Dalits in Gujarat. It shows the courage and determination of Dalit women and men to assert for their rights despite all odds. By capturing these stories of struggle, Project Heartland wants these brave people to be known, recognised and be seen …
Judicial Discourse and Caste Violence
Aditya Reading Bathani Tola and Laxmanpur Bathe Judgment* “Everyone strives to attain the law…how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?….The doorkeeper replies……. No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended only for you. I am …
‘Should we Dalits not fall in love?’
Rahi Gaikwad and Sukanya Shantha “Should Dalits not fall in love?” asked Shahaji Sonawane in an impassioned plea for justice for his 16 year old son Swapnil, who was brutally done to death by caste Hindus from the OBC Agri community on July 19. Swapnil was killed for being in a relationship with his childhood …
हम सबके लिए बाबासाहेब
Essay 2. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Ravindra Kumar Goliya आप सभी को बाबासाहब की १२५वीं जयंती की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं| आप सब से मैं पूछना चाहता हूँ कि हम बाबासाहब की जयंती क्यों मनाते हैं? क्या सिर्फ उन्हें याद करने के लिए? क्या सिर्फ यह याद कर लेने से काम चल जायेगा कि बाबासाहब …
Call for Papers: Seminar on ‘Most Marginalised Dalits: Mobilizations and Struggles for Justice’
Call for Research Papers For a ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on Most Marginalised Dalits: Mobilizations and Struggles for Justice On 29-30 March, 2016G.B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, UP Concept Note There are series of democratic struggles within Dalits by most marginalized Dalits for greater recognition and redistribution from mid of the 1990s in …
Khairlanji massacre protests 2006: Remembering the outrage of Ambedkarite youth
Pranali Garud Caste is a disease that affects people of India in different ways. It treats its victims differently from its beneficiaries, but the preamble of the constitution of India endorses an undifferentiated fraternity. Though we are all Indians, caste does not allow us to live with the single identity of being Indian. You …