Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age series, Round Table India talks to Dr Manisha Bangar, Vice President, BAMCEF. In the interview, Dr Manisha Bangar talks about a wide spectrum of current issues, and the Mulnivasi Bahujan perspective on them. She explicates the conceptual underpinnings of the Mulnivasi Bahujan movement, traces …
Interview with Prof Khalid Anis Ansari on the Pasmanda Movement
Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age series, Round Table India talks to Prof. Khalid Anis Ansari, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Exclusion Studies & Transformative Action (ACESTA), Glocal University, Uttar Pradesh. The interview focuses on the Pasmanda movement, on the issues of secularism/communalism and on the upper caste hegemony in all …
Dr Ambedkar and Women’s Suffrage
A power struggle had ensued between British women suffragettes and the elite Indian women leaders on who should lead the initiative for women’s franchise and political representation of Indian women. A pitched back and forth set of protests and political manoeuvres took place between prominent leaders of Indian women’s organizations and British women suffragettes, Eleanor …
In Daaravtha, caste doesn’t just stay in the background
It has been raining awards and honours for young filmmaker Nishant Roy Bombarde‘s debut film ‘Daaravtha’: the ‘Best Debut Film of a Director’ at the 63rd National Film Awards, ‘Audience Choice Award’ at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), ‘Best Short’ film at the New York Indian Film Festival, ‘Best Narrative Short’ …
Dalits and Social Media
Anitya Sanket Since the commencement of social networking and its popularization in India, the Indian masses have successfully exploited it, so much so that today we are the third largest online population in the world with 73.9 million people. Out of all, this has benefitted the marginalized communities the most. The Dalit community which …
Surviving boycotts for Ambedkar’s sake
Rahi Gaikwad Part II of the series continued from here Washim/Hingoli. The local provision store turns them away. The flour mill refuses to grind their grain. The village well becomes a no-go zone. Barred from farm work their daily wages stop. And a boycott begins. A number of Dalits in several villages in Washim …
‘बाबासाहब अंबेडकर मेरे लिए क्या मायने रखते हैं ‘ शीर्षक पर लेख आमन्त्रित हैं
Round Table India बाबा साहिब के जीवन और उनकी उपलब्धियों को मनाने के लिए किसी ख़ास अवसर की ज़रूरत नहीं है, उनका उदय एक चेतना और जन-मानस के एक नैतिक लंगर के रूप में हुआ। एक संगीतमय परम्परा उनके जीवन के प्रतिपादन की जो उनके जन्म से शुरू होते हुए, महाड़ में अपना रूप लेते हुए, …
‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means To Me’: Call for articles
Round Table India Celebrating Babasaheb’s life and achievements needs no particular occasion, he has emerged as a consciousness, a moral anchor for the masses. A musical tradition of rendering his life events from birth onwards, winding through Mahad, Poona Pact, Kalaram Mandir, Round Table conferences, the constitution itself, the conversion and his death was …
SC/ST Faculty in NIT Warangal Agitate against Biased Recruitment
Round Table India The following letter is a representation to the Union Minister of Human Resources Development on the 30-01-2016, from an observer who witnessed the situtation of the SC/ST Faculty at NIT, Warangal: To The Honourable Minister,Ministry of Human Resources and Development, GOI, Respected Madam, This is to bring to your notice that the SC/ST …