For An Informed Ambedkar Age
T T Sreekumar The Dalit land rights movement in Vadayambady, Kerala, against a ‘Caste Wall’ built by a Hindu temple run by the upper caste Nair Shudras and their organization called Nair Service Society (NSS) is one movement that need to be reckoned for its close relationship with the trajectories of the socio-political and …
Adv C Ahamed Fayiz The LDF government of Kerala took a highly significant decision in the socio-political history of India a few days ago; that it is going to implement economic reservation in the state. As made clear in the cabinet decision by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a 10 per cent reservation would be …
Aslah Vadakara and Shaharbanu CP Before saying anything about the “Willuwandi”, the musical band, we need to talk about a great event in Dalit history in Kerala, which could better explain the name of this music band-Willuwandi. The Public Works Department in Kerala was started in the 1860s in Travancore.The foreign engineer proposed to …
Anilkumar PV It is not without profound sorrow that one admits to oneself that in their highest flights the artists of all ages have raised to heavenly transfigurations precisely those conceptions which we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and philosophical errors of mankind, and they could not …
Lakshmi KTP In a deepening environment of utter dissatisfactions, depression, and negativity with the present state of affairs in the country with the Hindu state and its Brahmanic rule, it is important to talk about what solidarities should mean. It is very natural for one to stay back and say that there is nothing …
Anilkumar PV The setting of the last millennium saw the rise of a new star in the horizon of Malayalam film industry: Shakeela. It was in the year 2000 that her first Malayalam movie Kinnara Thumbikal was released. This low-budget movie, with a credits lacking in credible names, came out very strongly and went …
Gomathi G “Why are you so scared of this protest by us three women?“ The unpleasant incidents of yesterday (Thursday), that happened around midnight in the temporary protest tent of Pomplai Orumai near the Gandhi square in the Munnar market road, reveal certain things. It includes the plan of certain political parties to completely …
Dalit Penkoottam We strongly protest the verbal attacks directed at Pembilai Orumai* by the Minister of Electricity of the Pinarayi Vijayan government of Kerala and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretariat, M. M. Mani. We are of the opinion that this attack is part of patriarchal tendencies protected by organisations …
Anilkumar PV There is no other grand claim about history as that of Hegel’s inimitable remark: “God is God only in so far as he knows himself.” It was Marx who liberated thought from the idealism of Hegel and placed it in the materiality of the productive relations of history. And, as we all …