Suresh RV [This article is written to clear the confusion in the minds of the young dalit-bahujan students and job aspirants, whether we should avail reservations or not? Or whether we truly deserve reservations or not? Because, I too have had this confusion, guilt and insecurity at one point of time in my life. …
Social Justice and Student Activism Within the Brahmanical Educational System
Anoop Kumar I believe every educational institution in this country, especially the so called ‘national’ ones have been deliberately designed in a way to exclude the majority of Indians and to term them as ‘non meritorious’ at the expense of a very small upper caste English speaking elite. It is a conspiracy. It is …
Youth for Self and Social Change (YSSC): A Journey
Payal Rama Nagpur is the winter capital and the third largest city in the state of Maharashtra. It is also one of the prominent cities in Central India. Before the formation of the state of Maharashtra, Nagpur was part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Under the British rule, it was one of the …
Police Broke All Laws to Arrest Students, Teachers in University of Hyderabad
Justice For Rohith {youtube}-jqk8E7pz7c{/youtube} This is a transcript of lawyer Gunratan’s brief talk as he updates UoH students after returning from the court on March 24th. He is part of the team working on the fictitious cases made on students and faculty of UoH. This video is part of the narratives recorded by Justice For …
Condemning the shrinking democratic spaces in educational institutions
From the National Law School of India University, Bangalore We, the concerned students, researchers and teaching faculty, of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore express deep condolences on the sad demise of Mr. Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar in Science, Technology and Society Studies Programme at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). Rohith …
‘Excellence’ through Expulsion: A case of Arbitrary Merit vs Constitutional Mandate
(Preliminary) Fact Finding Report on Expulsion of SC/ST/OBC students from IIT, Roorkee 30th July 2015 – 1st August 2015 ~ National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights National Dalit Movement for Justice ~ Fact Finding Team: Anoop Kumar, Dilip C. Mandal, Gurinder Azad, Nidhin Shobhana and Shefali Saini Report Authored by: Nidhin Shobhana and Shefali …
Dalit-Bahujan Students Meet in the UK
Harshada Vinaya With an intention to build a constructive dialogue and build a support network amongst the Dalit Bahujan students in the UK, a meeting was organised on the 20th of July 2015 in London. The objective of this meeting was primarily to form a network of the Dalit Bahujan students in the UK …
Withdraw Police Cases Against Professor Kancha Ilaiah
Concerned Students and Teachers Condemn the Police Cases Against Professor Kancha Ilaiah VHP activists have filed a case against Professor. Kancha Ilaiah, the Management Board and Editor of Telugu Newspaper, Andhra Jyothi, for publishing an article in the same daily during the month of May 2015. Alleging that Prof. Ilaiah insulted Hindu gods by …
Great coaching opportunity for SC/ST students from AIM-IMS
Ambedkar International Mission (AIM) has started a new initiative that shall benefit students from Dalit, Adivasi, OBC and other under-represented communities aspiring to enter premier higher educational institutions in the country. As part of this initiative IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd (or IMS), which is one of the best coaching institutions in the country, shall offer coaching for these students …