Hisham Ul Wahab P The ongoing protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus demanding a fast probe into the disappearance and return of Najeeb Ahmad, a muslim student of School of Biotechnology, and immediate judicial action against ABVP culprits made a huge outcry among the students and teachers of the campus. But the heinous silence …
Changing Dalit Politics in Rural Maharashtra: Case Study of Aljapur Village
Nitin Dhaktode Caste in politics is not new in India. Bihar elections have given clear indication of the importance of caste based politics. Caste has always been playing a vital role in elections since independence, both in the way to win and loose. In this article, I am presenting empirical experiences of Aljapur village …
Rise of Modi and Anti-Muslim Politics: A Critical Reading of the Left
K K Baburaj After hearing the news of BJP securing individual majority in parliament, I visited a friend of mine. His father, a retired teacher and a well-known leftist locally being an ex-leader of a left wing teachers’ association, started talking to me enthusiastically about the election results. “This result is a reply to the …
Boycott Brahminical Castiest Student Council’s EFLU ‘UTSAV’
[Via Satish Nainala] (Pamphlet released by various students organizations in EFL University opposing the EFLU Utsav which was held in the last week of March) When the entire student community is suffering from the lack of basic amenities like proper drinking water, lack of minimal medical facilities, no guarantee for their scholarships, the student …
Rape and Murder of Dalit & Minority Girls in Kandhamal – Fact Finding Report
Interim Report of the Fact Finding Investigation of Rape and Murder of Dalit & Minority Girls January 10, 2013 in Kandhamal, Odisha ~ [Via Asha Kowtal] The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights with allied organizations like NAWO, Odisha Forum for Social Action, human rights activists and journalists conducted a fact finding visit to …
A paradigm shift called Kanshi Ram
Kancha Ilaiah [This article was first published in two parts, ‘A paradigm shift called Kanshi Ram’ and ‘Dalits and the horizontal ladder’, in 2003; we have combined the two parts into one single piece of writing. We, along with our readers, celebrate the memory of Manyawar Kanshi Ram on his birth anniversary- Round Table …
Constitution for inclusive policies
by Abusaleh Shariff There is nothing in the Constitution which bars identification of beneficiaries of public programmes based on religion. Of late, there has been a debate on whether public programmes such as school education, scholarships, health-care delivery and access to microcredit can be targeted at beneficiaries based on religion; some consider this ‘unconstitutional’ and …