Dr. B Karthik Navayan The Instagram account, meme yahi_banayenge is uploading hate filled memes insulting father of constitution of India, Dr B R Ambedkar, Ambedkarite communities and Muslim community. Please sign the petition demanding the removal of the page here: https://www.change.org/p/ravi-shankar-prasad-minister-of-electronics-and-information-technology-twitter-rsprasad-remove-the-hate-filled-instagram-account-https-www-instagram-com-meme-yahi-banayenge According to The News Minute article, the Instagram page called Meme Yahi Banayenge, …
A suggestion for Behenji
Dipankar Kamble Just a suggestion! Caution: This suggestion is just a view and analysis of an amateur Ambedkarite. I am not a great political analyst; this suggestion just struck my mind when I was sitting idly in the canteen. And I don’t even know how much relevance it holds. On 18th July 2017, Mayawati …
Chamcha Leadership or Conscious Leadership?
Rajanikanta Gochhayat Representation simply means acting and representing opinion/interest on behalf of the people. In the Indian context, Representation is divided into two categories: one, leadership from a reserved constituency and two, leadership from an unreserved constituency. Here, we would like to discuss the leadership emerging from the reserved constituencies by applying two models …
भारत में महिला राजनीति पर जातिवाद का कितना प्रभाव
Sweta Yadav भारत विभिन्ताओं का देश है| तरह-तरह की बोलियाँ अलग-अलग संस्कृतियाँ, जाति, धर्म सम्प्रदाय में बंटा हुआ देश | जिसके बारे में किसी ने सही ही कहा है “कोस -कोस पर बदले पानी चार कोस पर वाणी|” जाति भारत का वास्तविक सच है जिसे अनदेखा करके भारत की कल्पना बेमानी है| भारत में …
Pandit Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade: A Case Study in Brahminism
Dhurwa R. Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade is one of the best examples of how brahminical powerplay makes a farce out of the most hard fought battles put up by Dalits, and does that rather patronizingly. Before I even watched the film, the title itself (and the media hype with one of its first …
Calling out Hysteria
Jyotsna Siddharth When Dalits are beaten up mercilessly with an iron rod in broad daylight, it shakes but doesn’t break us. When an 11-year-old Dalit girl is gang raped repeatedly by the same men, it doesn’t question our morale; it disturbs us, but doesn’t leave us sleepless at night. What do we do? And …
India in transition
Hariram A Stagnation is the sign of death and dynamism is the sign of life, change is permanent and it is the law of nature. India for centuries was under stagnation and stinking with the presence of the corpse of caste and gender discrimination. Man is evil and selfish, but nature is not. The …
In defense of Mayawati
Swapnil Dhanraj The Bahujan Samaj Party chief, Mayawati, is not an ordinary woman. She has successfully shouldered her responsibilities of representing the Bahujan Samaj throughout her political career in various ways. The charismatic personality which the BSP chief carries today is not a result of any “media publicity” or false propaganda of serving the …
The Story of Caste and Indian Campuses – II
Anoop Kumar Continued from here. His speech at the talk organised by the Ambedkarite Students’ Association at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, held on 22nd December, 2014. The speech has been transcribed by Valliammal Karunakaran. Now I would like to take you back to my engineering college days. I did my 10+2 …