For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Riya Singh Yes, I am assertive. Assertive of my caste identity. It is not a ‘fashion statement’ trust me, it takes a lot of courage and training of your own self to be this assertive. You asked me what harm did you do to me. You know what you did, you asked me to …
Khalid Anis Ansari Dialogue with BAPSA, JNU: Part One At the outset let me extend my congratulations to BAPSA for the splendid performance in JNUSU elections. In the last few weeks I had tried to follow BAPSA’s JNUSU campaign from social media and other sources closely and had extended my unequivocal moral support. The …
Rahul Sonpimple (His reply to an open letter addressed to him by Umar Khalid, student leader of JNU) I am new to this culture of open letters, I wonder if I will get one after my every speech. At the outset, let me state that I am not writing this reply to defend myself, …
Akhil Kang There seems to be a lot of questioning in the sexuality discourses over how would one bring the ‘caste angle’ within its fold. Among the many dilemmas that our beloved queer folks seem to be grappling with is how do we ‘address the caste question’. The queer spaces in India are, let’s …
Gaurav Somwanshi I have spent most of my twenty four years in Aurangabad. I studied in a convent school where my friends were a mixed group from all castes and communities.Though we never felt it back then, and it’s only in retrospect that I am saying this, but we were all growing up differently. …
Yogesh Maitreya Language is one of the basic media to facilitate the expression of the mind. Yet, when a distinct form of it is spoken by a select group of people who are high up in the social hierarchy, it can become a tool to maintain cultural superiority. In the Indian context, it would …
Dr Ajay Sekher Theyyam, the ancient ritual and popular art form of Malabar, is a cultural expression of the dalits and other contested sections of the stratified society. The subaltern classes used it as a strategic aesthetic and spiritual act and articulation against caste oppression and barbaric violence unleashed by the caste lords and …
(Report first published in November 2003) Continued from here. Violence against Dalits in Marathwada A Report by the Fact Finding Team comprising Dr. Anand Teltumbde, Akram Siddiqui, Subodh More, Hashim Mohamma November 2003 Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Mumbai 2. Murti incident Murti is a relatively bigger village with a population of about …
(Report first published in November 2003) Violence against Dalits in Marathwada A Report by the Fact Finding Team comprising Dr. Anand Teltumbde Akram Siddiqui Subodh More Hashim Mohamma November 2003 Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Mumbai ~~~ Introduction In recent months a series of incidents of killings and violence against Dalits in Marathwada …