For An Informed Ambedkar Age
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 …
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 …
PUBLIC STATEMENT WE CONDEMN THE TISS MANAGEMENT’S DECISION TO ROLL BACK FEE EXEMPTION TO SC, ST AND OBC STUDENTS WE CONDEMN GOVERNMENT’S APATHY OVER EXCLUDING DALIT-ADIVASI-BAHUJAN MINORITIES FROM HIGHER EDUCATION We, the alumni of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, offer our support to the call made by the TISS Students Union for a …
Call for papers for workshop on: “Doing Ambedkarism Today: Issues of Caste, Gender, and Community” Dates – 19th to 22nd February 2018 Deadline for Proposals – 31st December 2017 The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), is organizing a workshop on the above mentioned theme sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New …
Arun Mahanand From Brahmanisation to Privatisation of Education, at the Cost of Dalit-Bahujan Students: Case of Tata Institute of Social Sciences Until the last semester, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) would provide financial support to students from SC, ST and OBC categories, who were eligible for Government of India’s (GoI) Scholarships. Students …
Rajunayak Vislavath This is in response to a recent Facebook video that went viral. What you see in the video is that of a Dalit student getting brutally beaten up by upper caste students. In the beginning, it was not clear where it happened but after a couple of days, people came to know …
Mangesh Dahiwale The President of India is a ceremonial post. It is often compared with the “rubber stamp”. But as the head of state, it is also a prestigious post. The orders are issued in his name and proclamations bear his name. He is the Supreme Commander in Chief of the armed forces. The …
Dr Manisha Bangar NVP BAMCEF In India, and wherever in the world Caste exists, Ambedkar and Marx will remain Irreconcilable. Starting from the happenings in Hyderabad Central University in August 2015 when the students of ASA were ostracized, more so from the time of the Institutional murder of Rohith Vemula in January 2016, from …
Dr Manisha Bangar NVP BAMCEF The election results of HCUSU 2016 have brought glad tidings. Ambedkar Students Association, whose five member students including Rohith Vemula were suspended and which has been in the forefront of the #JusticeforRohith movement, has emerged as the second single largest students union. Congratulations go to Prashanth Dontha, Ms Kavya, …