The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta created a stir when it appeared in Marathi in 1978. Set in Mumbai and rural Maharashtra of the 1940s and 50💝s, author and poet Daya Pawar depicts the stark reality of caste violence and untouchability in this classic. It also celebrates the resilience, dignity and courage of the Dalit community and their fight for equality in an unequal society.ꦐ
In April 2010, a goddess was installed in 𒊎a small single-storey temple in Banka in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. It was an ambitious undertaking to fill the vacancy of a goddess in a Dalit household.
♓ Gaddar, a poet and a communist revolutionary, died on August 6 🌸
Atrocities against Dalits are takಌing place regularly across India. Here’s a snapshot
The practice of untouchabilit✱y and the heinous crimes♈ that are committed in the form of brute killings, rapes, and public beatings are still in practice. How about a space that depicts all of this?
෴ Dalit radicality in the name of Ambedkar is threatened of decay and cooption, thereby running the risk of receding into the landscape of caste
Babasaheb’s universalist vision of the community bas൲ed on maitr🧸i enriches the political imagination everywhere
Ambedkar saw no hope for Dalit liberation without ‘political separation from the Hindus’. Gandhi, while agreeing that the honour of Hinduism could not be saved ‘without eradica♔ting untouchability root and branch’, considered the idea of Dalit political separation from Hinduism ‘suicidal’ for the national movement.
Anand Teltumbde is a scholar and civil rights activist known for his extensive work on B.R. Ambedkar’s life and work as well as the caste issue. He was arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case in 2020 and released on bai𒐪l in November 2022 after spending 31 month🌌s in jail. The 72-year-old spoke to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
𒁏 The direct conflict between Hindu♔tva and the Ambedkarites’ views of the past and present have turned Bhima-Koregaon into what it now is
In April 2010, a goddess was installed in a small single-storey temple in Banka in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. It was an ambitious undertaking to fill t🎐he vacancy of a goddess in a Dalit household. ✅
Gaddar, a poet and a communist revolutionary, died oꦓn August 6
Atrocities against Dalits are taking place regularly across India. Her🃏e’s a snapshot 🐟
The practice of untouchability and the heinous crimes that are committ🌄ed in the form of brute killings, rapes, and public beatings are still in practice. How about a space that depicts all of this? 🌠
Dalit radicality in the name of Ambedkar is threatened of decay꧂ and cooption, thereby running 🔯the risk of receding into the landscape of caste
🐈 Babasaheb’s universalist vision of the community based on maitri enriches the political imagination everywhere
Ambedkar saw no hope for Dalit liberation without ‘political separation from the Hindus’. Gandhi, while agreeing that the honour of Hinduism could not be saved ‘without eradicating untouchability root and branch’, considered the idea of Dalit political sepa👍ration from Hinduism ‘suicidal’ for the national movement.
Anand Teltumbde is a scholar and civil rights activist known for his extensive work on B.R. Ambedkar’s life and work as well as the caste issue. He was arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case in 2020 and released on bail in November 2022 after spending 31 months🎃 in jail. The🦹 72-year-old spoke to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
The dire🐈ct conflict between Hindutva and the Ambedkarites’ views of the past and present have turned Bhima-Koregaon into what it now is
🐻 D🌜alit women’s fight for equality and assertion has been as much with the ‘woman’ as with the ‘man’
The monuments, statues and parks in Lucknow are 🌃a stark reminder of what the Bahujan Samaj Party once stood for
The Dalit Panthers were committed to the mi𝐆ssion of fighting cruelty and oppression
This issue is for all of us. To act and to agitate. To keep faith and to confront the realities. To love and to understand. To stand together and to demand answers and keep asking questions. This issue is for the sake of freedom for everyone. In the hope that ♛we annihilate caste, we invoke memꦐory to guide us through this.
A Dalit Panthers cadre from Maharashtra, Ramdas Athawale, was closely associat𝄹ed with the formation of the Bharatiya Dalit Panthers and then became the president 🐷of the Republican Party of India (A). Today, he is the minister of social justice and empowerment in the Union government. He spoke to Suraj Yengde.
Data discrepancy, coupled with the ignorance of the consecutive political dispensation, worsens the situation of the marginalised communities, feels Bezwada Wilson, the national conven🌄er of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SFA).
While breathing the air of opp🐬ression, I will use it to slit the asphyxiation, and drown the gutter of civilisation. ൲
Opening passages of Mulk Raj Anand’s controౠve🅺rsial and important novel
Only social justiꦛce can be the antidote to radical Hindutva and the caste census can prove to be a strong step in this diಞrection
﷽ Artists from marginalised communities reflect on the everyday🀅 lives of Dalits and the oppressed classes at an exhibition
