Satvendar Madara On 9th October 2006, when the sad news of Saheb Kanshi Ram’s death reached his well-wishers throughout India and abroad, several questions rose in their minds. The glorious heights he took the caravan of Babasaheb Ambedkar–what will be its future? As, after the demise of Babasaheb on 6th December 1956, his movement …
Duddu Prabhakar: Dalit movement at a crossroads
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes [In this interview Duddu Prabhakar, veteran Dalit rights activist and President of the ‘Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samithi’ (‘Struggle Committee for Eradication of Caste’, roughly), traces the history of the Dalit movement in Andhra Pradesh from Karamchedu in 1985 to Lakshimpeta in 2012, and says the movement now has to decide …