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Sunflower giving Mother

kusum nigam

“If there was no night, women would not even have a chance to rest” – Smt. Kusum Nigam Dhamma Darshan Nigam Our mother once said that “अगर रात नहीं होती तो महिलाओं को आराम करने का मौक़ा भी नहीं मिलता” (If there was no night, women would not even have a chance to rest). One …

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Dalit Women to be Heard

hemangi kadlak

  Hemangi Kadlak (Transcript of her speech at the National Convention on the Rights of Dalit Women Human Rights Defenders: ‘Dalit Women Speak’ on 17-18 January 2020, at HDRC, St. Xavier’s Campus, Ahmedabad) First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to this conference on ‘Dalit Women Speak.’ Before coming to …

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Kanshi Ram: Man, Legacy and Modern Dalit-Bahujan Political Dynamics

vaibhav walunj

  Vaibhav Walunj “Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.”– Walter Lippmann Indian political discourse after the life of Babasaheb Ambedkar would remain incomplete without acknowledging the Bahujan movement led by Kanshi Ram. This movement shook …

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Beyond Conventional Political Binaries

om mahtao

  Omprakash Mahato Yashwant Sinha, in the ‘United India Opposition Rally’ held in West Bengal on 19 january 2019, stated that the coming together of opposition parties is not to defeat ‘one person’. It is a fight between two ideologies. The ideologies that will uphold the constitutional ethos; that will protect secularism from the religious …