For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sanjeev Kumar and Babasaheb Kambale It’s very rare to witness the demolition of any space of Brahminical importance – for instance, spaces associated with Gandhi, Nehru, Savarkar, and Patel etc. However, it’s very common that the spaces belonging to historical figures who propounded fraternity, equality, freedom and justice for humanity such as Ambedkar, Phule, Periyar, and …
Ambedkar was for ‘(Pra)Buddh Bharat’, not ‘Hindu Bharat: What if all dalit-Bahujans of India embrace Buddhism! Sanjeev Kumar On 14th April, 2016, Rohith Vemula’s mother and brother embraced Buddhism. This of course is a major intervention in the ongoing dalit discourse on identity, nationalism, discrimination, caste and religion at large. To respond/appropriate this discourse, Ram Madhav …
Sanjeev Kumar Electoral politics is the ‘popular form’ of politics. Nonetheless, politics has a wider connotation, veiled and translated through various means such as paintings, monuments, songs, architecture, literature, language, protests, movements etc. In fact, these are spatial, temporal and linguistic sites that (de)construct the meaning and nature of politics over and over again. Similarly, …
Sanjeev Kumar In contemporary world, you find broadly two models of development. One is the Bhagwati Model which suggests unconditional encouragement of new investment in the economy. According to this model, the revenue generated from these new investments for states could be used for the improvement of living standards of the downtrodden sections of society. …