जाति
December 22, 2016
जेएनयू और उना विवाद से उपजे कन्हैया और जिग्नेश ने जहां सामाजिक-आर्थिक आजादी की मांग की, वहीं रोहित की खुदकुशी ने शैक्षिक संस्थाओं में भेदभाव को देश के सामने रखा
फ्रांस की क्रांति से लेकर साल 2010 में ट्यूनीशिया से शुरु हुई ‘स्प्रिंग रिवोल्यूशन’ के दौरान इस बात की पुष्टि हुई कि क्रांति और आंदोलनों की जरुरत कभी खत्म नहीं होती. जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ ने कहा था, ‘इतिहास हमें यह सिखाता...
December 20, 2016
While the Dalit upsurge in Una in Gujarat received widespread attention, an atrocity against Dalit youths being thrashed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the same time did not. It remained merely a Paswan versus Bhumihar confrontation. Dalits remain a differentiated group in Bihar, and have a long way to go before the community can rise above the imperatives of the here and now and assert as a...
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...
December 17, 2016
On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide. For the whole year, his mother, brother and thousands of others have been asking for justice, and hold the University’s VC accountable for the institutional murder of Vemula.
But far from acting in this regard, the government continues to ask: was he even a Dalit? Was he not an anti-national...
December 15, 2016
In July 2016, Jignesh Mevani, a practising lawyer and activist, battling for access to land for Dalits through Gujarat’s courts –for close to half a decade before that date-- burst onto the national scene, leading the protests in the state after the Una incident when Dalits were brutally beaten, simply because they were performing their work, cleaning and curing of carcasses of dead...
December 15, 2016
मोदी-मोदी-मोदी।
HRD मंत्रालय के केंद्रीय राज्य मंत्री पांडेय जी ने संसद को बताया है कि OBC को रिज़र्वेशन सिर्फ असिस्टेंट प्रोफ़ेसर लेवल पर मिलेगा।
एसोसिएट और प्रोफ़ेसर लेवल पर OBC रिज़र्वेशन नहीं मिलेगा। जबकि ज़्यादातर नियुक्तियाँ इसी लेवल पर होती है।
मंडल कमीशन ने स्पष्ट रूप से सभी स्तरों पर ओबीसी रिज़र्वेशन देने की सिफ़ारिश की है।
यह कहने का मतलब क्या है कि कांग्रेस के समय...
December 15, 2016
सरकारी मशीनरी का इस्तेमाल यह साबित करने में किया गया कि रोहित वेमुला दलित नहीं थे और उनकी मां ने इस बारे में झूठ बोला है। राधिका वेमुला को केंद्र सरकार के इशारे पर लगातार अभद्रता, अपमान और लांछन का शिकार बनाया जा रहा है।
जनवरी महीने की 17 तारीख रोहित वेमुला की पहली पुण्यतिथि होगी। उनकी त्रासद आत्महत्या किसी सांस्थानिक...
December 14, 2016
Professor Meenakshi Reddy accused of casteist and prejudicial behaviour including failing Dalit students wins a judicial victory that gives six months hail to the students
A court on Tuesday sentenced five Dalit students from the English and Foreign Languages University here to six-month imprisonment for defamation. Fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granted the five...
December 13, 2016
January 17 will mark the first death anniversary of Rohith Vemula. His tragic suicide, nothing short of an institutional murder, caused outrage and a Justice for Rohith movement across the country. One of the demands was for a separate law to protect and defend the rights of Dalit and Adivasi students from the discrimination and injustice embedded or practiced against them in differing degrees in...
December 12, 2016
Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yagati Chinna Rao
Image courtesy Orient Blackswan
Are you fit for political power even though you do not allow a large class of your own countrymen like the untouchables to use public schools? …public wells? …public streets? …to eat any food they like?
—B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste
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