For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sumeet Samos Introduction During a conversation with a friend recently, he suggested I check out the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Casually, I checked into LinkedIn, and immediately three to four names popped up: one Tamil Brahmin and the other three Bengali Brahmins. We smiled at each other and said, “Of course, who else?” without being surprised …
Sumeet Samos Hundred years ago, to walk on many public streets would have been unimaginable for Dalits in this country; to drink water from public sources would have been met with physical violence; and to sit near caste Hindu students in a public school would have been opposed publicly. These were the established norms of …
Sumeet Samos Growing up in a small village in South Odisha in a Christian family, there were regular prayer meetings in our house and Sunday services in a nearby church, and my parents would always emphasize the teachings of the Bible and ask us to remember the verses from the Bible for our everyday lives. …
Sumeet Samos In the early 1990s, at the peak of Ram Janma Bhoomi movement and decline of Congress in various states, a new brand of politics from among the Backward Classes and Dalits took the centre stage which we interchangeably refer to as Mandal or social justice politics. This brand was not a homogenous group …
Sumeet Samos In October 2021, I joined the MSc in Modern South Asian Studies programme at the University of Oxford. Before leaving for Oxford, I did not know what to expect in the programme as well as in the university life. However, I had heard of Professor Rosalind O’ Hanlon and David Gellner working in …
Rahul Sonpimple (This is the text of his speech on the theme ‘Undoing the Dominant Narrative’ delivered at the SIO national conference on February 23rd, 2018. It was transcribed by Sumeet Samos) Jai Bhim to all the participants, friends, elders, women and student representatives on behalf of my organization BAPSA. Tonight, I speak here not …
Tejaswini Tabhane “Revising our past time and again.It drives me insane,Like a stream of current flowing through my vein,Squeezing out all the gray matters of my brain.I see too many patches of caste slavery stains.In this very lane,We will blow up Manu’s kingdom no one us can restrain.We busting all your myths, learn from …