For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sufi Ghulam Hussain On 26th of March, the Bheel Intellectual Forum (BIF) organized a Scheduled Caste Jagarta Rally, the first ever rally that saw the participation of all major Dalit communities of Sindh. Kolhi, Bheel, Meghwar and Baghri walked through the streets of Mithi city of Tharparkar to demand rights of Scheduled castes communities, …
Ambedkar Reading Group Delhi University Recently we saw the coming together of Dalits and Muslims at the ground level, against a common enemy – the Hindu, Brahminical State and Culture – in many instances. It was a unification of lower caste groups and Muslims that we witnessed in the struggles of Ambedkar Students Association …
C Ahamed Fayiz Activists of Inquilab Students Movement were attacked by SFI hooligans at Government College, Madappally, Calicut today. Adhil Ali. A, a first year student who is pursuing BA political science, was brutally attacked by SFI goons. “We were locked up in the principal’s room and prevented from going outside the campus for …
Towards a post-minority Condition1 – this is the concluding part of the three-part series ‘Dialogue with BAPSA’. Read Part 1 here and Part 11 here. Khalid Anis Ansari Historically, while the category ‘majority’ has been by default occupied by the most dominant cultural collectivity within the national territory, the notion of ‘minority’ has carried …
Anshul Kumar If one were to attempt to comprehend Plato and Descartes’ philosophical thoughts one thing that is worth acknowledging is that religions of the world associate people with either immaterial souls or pure egos. From this perspective, people have bodies only contingently, not necessarily, so they can live after bodily death. Etymologically identity comes …
Gerard Baared [The long exit from Hinduism/Brahmanism for the ‘untouchables’ is naturally an ongoing movement, given the scale of the task, the multiple levels of responsibilities to understand, process and communicate people’s aspirations regarding their rights, and the complex logistic factors to be dealt with. The term exit predicates an imagined or real inclusion, …
Prabuddha Council, JNU “Religion in the sense of morality must remain the governing principle of every society” – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Engendering violence of any kind, anywhere, is a great threat to humanity as well as the environment. Suffering pervades all and is causal to the deteriorating conditions of society. Hope seems to be …
Sky Baaba He sat on a throneand made my Dalits sit on the groundtold my Adivasis to stay at his feetwe folded our hands and stood,bringing palms together was all he ever taught my people;changing religion was a rebellionmy people stood shoulder to shoulderand entered mosques and churches; The above excerpt from Sky Baaba’s …
Moti Ram Mensa Dishonourable Kothari ji, Jai Bharat. Early in the morning nobody wishes to spoil his entire day but today, by expressing your narrow minded hatred-filled ideas, you tried to spoil the entire day of Bahujans of the country. But when you read my reply, your evening would certainly be spoiled. While writing …