Hindu Right, Ambedkar And JNU Politics
The ABVP activists are hopeful that their “achievement” of having the library renamed after Dr Ambedkar will help them woo lower-caste students, particularly Dalits. With the JNUSU elections...
View ArticlePeriyar: Rationalist Bahujan Socialist Revolutionary And The Crusader Against...
Erode Venkata Ramasamy Naickar(17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), commonly known as Periyar also referred as E. V. R. or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist, freedom fighter and...
View ArticleInquiring Into The Role Of CPI(M) In The Annihilation Of Caste
Vijoo Krishnan recently led a team of CPI(M) and its mass organizations to the historic Dalit Asmita Yatra (culminating in Una on 15-Aug 2016). In the light of this, and participation of the party in...
View ArticleSatya Sodhak Trinity Of Mahatma Jothirao Phule
We pay our tributes to Mahatma Jothirao Phule, the founder of Satya Sodhak Samaj, on this 143rd year of its foundation, namely September 24, 1873. Mahatma Jothirao Phule, and his wife Krantijyoti...
View ArticleI Am 16, Dalit, And A Video Of Me Being Tortured In Class Went Viral
I am 16 years old, a student of a government school in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. For the last few days, everyone wants to know why I was beaten so mercilessly and why I kept silent for so long. Well, I am...
View ArticleWhen The Voiceless Get A Voice
If there’s one overwhelming sign that numbers mean nothing and organization means everything, it is the plight of Dalits and Muslims in India. Dalits and Muslims are officially 17% & 13% of the...
View ArticleNow You Don’t See Me, Now You Don’t-JatiIndia: A Flag of Atrocities Caste,...
An interview with MuslimPress Why did you choose the name “Jatiindia” for your work? What’s the significance of this name? Inequality exists in societies all across the globe. Designed by Brahmanism...
View ArticleVaarasa (The Inheritance ) – A Compelling Short Fiction On Caste
“The Inheritance” is a compelling fictional narrative of a young man who is sucked up by the whirlpool of caste system. This short fiction depicts with conviction how even educated young people of...
View ArticleCaste System Remains The Biggest Threat To Democracy
Despite a great threat to their own existence inside the JNU campuses which is being ‘cleaned’ to maintain Brahmanical purity and hegemony ( it was always there but in a better ‘coordinated’ and...
View ArticleMahishasur: A people’s Hero
Alternative Readings of the Durga-Mahishasur Myth. A Revolt Against Brahmanical Epistemology: The beginning of a new cultural renaissance in India The alternative readings of myths from Brahmanical...
View ArticleSocial Inequality in a Political Democracy
In spite of India’s perceptible economic and social development, the caste system still obstructs and isolates the section of its population, the Scheduled Caste (SC) also called as Dalits and...
View ArticleDemocracies can’t breathe without responding to Race and Caste discrimination
Two of the biggest democracies in the world now face the biggest challenges in their political history. Yes, I am speaking about United States and India. One has failed to accommodate the huge Black...
View ArticleAre Casteism and Racism Blood Brothers?
Caste is not entirely the same as Race, yet Casteism and Racism remain blood brothers. They are both systems of structured oppression which date back centuries. While Racism surfaced back as a white...
View ArticleCaste Atrocities in Tamil Nadu in the wake of Covid-19 Pandemic
Humanity, which aspires to move to the moon to expand its empire by virtue of its so-called scientific advancement is forced to learn an indelible lesson taught by the virus Covid-19. The invisible...
View ArticleCisco Case Shows Indians Still Take Caste Where they Go
What happens to caste when Indians migrate to Western countries? Do their feelings of being born superior or inferior, their belief in the purity-pollution ethic, just melt away? The “model minority”...
View ArticleStrengthen National Commission of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Introduction National Commission of Scheduled Castes and National Commission of Scheduled Tribes, both constitutional bodies constituted to protect and monitor implementation of safeguards to Scheduled...
View ArticleRequirement Of An Independent Constitutional Body
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was enacted with a main objective to protect marginalised communities viz. schedule castes and tribes against...
View ArticleThe Irony of Fear of Victims and the Fearlessness of Perpetrators in a Nation...
After the death of a Dalit girl from Hathras in a hospital at New Delhi, many video cameras turn to members of girl’s family to gather the know about of the incident. Many videos surfaced on social...
View ArticlePolitical Economy of Caste in India
Caste plays a role at every stage of an Indian’s economic life: in school, university, the labor market, and into old age. The influence of caste extends beyond private economic activity into the...
View ArticleSo You want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement?
On 25th May 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man was murdered in police custody in Minneapolis, USA. A video showing a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes while he was...
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