Jitendra Suna The government of India has brought out a bill in a day without the knowledge of its citizens and stakeholders of the reservation system. BJP government after an unsuccessful attempt to scrap the SC/ST Atrocity Act have started another vicious act of tampering with the constitution through reservation policy. This time they …
Why Jai Bhim-Jai Pasmanda rather than Jai Bhim-Jai Meem
Mohammad Imran The recently conducted rally in Aurangabad by Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, in which the alliance between Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh and Assaduddin Owaisi led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen was formally announced was a much debated political move in Maharashtrian politics. The alliance was made on the ground that it has an ability to speak …
An Open Letter to the JNU Vice-Chancellor
ToMr. Jagadesh Kumar,Vice-Chancellor,Jawaharlal Nehru University Sir, Sub: Institutional Torture by University Administration for raising voice against the draconian UGC Gazette 2016 I am Dileep Kumar Yadav, a Ph.D Scholar in the Centre for Inner-Asian Studies, School of International Studies and am about to submit my Ph.D thesis in some weeks. It is quite unfortunate …
Caste, Family, Self: Savarna Christian Perspectives
Nidhin Shobhana (This is a short report on a self-perception survey conducted among Young Syrian Christians as a part the author’s MPhil Coursework in Centre for Studies in Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU) What is the value of a perception survey? The Mandal Commission in its ‘socio-educational’ household survey asked the participants the following question— Do …
Social Justice in Higher Education: An Ever Receding Goal
Hany Babu MT The letter dated 5 March 2018 from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to the higher educational institutions regarding the implementation of reservation in teaching posts has once again made it abundantly clear that those who are at the helm of affairs in the Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) and the UGC have …
Anatomy of TISS Students’ Union Protest: Motives and Inside story
Deepak Kumar Nanda Tata Institute of Social Sciences Students Union 2017-18 had given a university strike in the name of “TISS Bandh” on 21st of February 2018 with three major demands to revoke the policy of Government of India Post Metric Scholarship (GOI-PMS) for the batches of MA 2016-18, 2017-19 and upcoming 2018-20 respectively. In …
उच्च शिक्षणाचे दरवाजे खुले व्हावे म्हणून TISS चे मुख्य गेट बंद आंदोलन सुरु आहे
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) गेल्या काही वर्षांपासून शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण होत असून ७५ वर्षांपासून सामाजिक कार्यामध्ये ‘सामाजिक न्यायासाठी’ उभ्या असणाऱ्या टाटा सामाजिक विज्ञान संस्थेने इतर खाजगी शिक्षण संस्थांप्रमाणे शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण करून अनुसूचित जाती-जमाती, OBC व इतर कमकुवत तबक्यांतील विद्यार्थ्यांना शुल्क आकरण्यात आले व भरण्याची सक्ती केली आहे. शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण थांबवून भारतीय संविधानाने ठरवून दिलेल्या मूलभूत …
Uproot the Wall of Untouchability Erected by Paraiyars in Sandaiyur
Dr B. Ravichandran In Sandaiyur village of Madurai District, Chakkiliyars, one of the Scheduled Castes in Tamil Nadu are protesting for the 13th day since 30th January against an untouchability wall. They are demanding demolition of the wall. In protest. 70 families have left their houses and are staying under a banyan tree at …
From Brahmanism to Ambedkarism: An Ongoing Ontological Expedition
Yashwant Zagade I was raised in the suburbs of Mumbai in the 90s, at a time when Hindutva politics reached its peak for the first time after independence. I still remember how this political atmosphere influenced my childhood — I grew up sloganeering “Tai, Mai-Aakka vichar kara pakka ani magach dhanushybaanavar mara shikka” (sister, …