भेदभाव
February 18, 2016
भारतीय समाज की सबसे निचली सीढ़ी पर खड़ी दलित स्त्री ने समाज की वर्जनाओं निषेधाज्ञाओं को लांघते हुऐ ब्राह्मणवादी व्यवस्था केमुख्य आधार स्तम्भ; पितृसत्ता, धर्म और जातीयता को हमेशा कड़ी टक्कर दी है। चाहें वह चिन्तन का क्षेत्र हो अथवा संघर्ष का, दोनो स्तरों पर उसने अपने अस्तित्व व अस्मिता की लड़ाई को प्राचीन काल से लेकर आज तक जारी रखा है।
आधुनिक महिला आन्दोलन की शुरूआत 18वीं शताब्दी से...
February 17, 2016
Singing songs of ordinary people, especially Dalits, Shital Sathe has been singing of the marginalised, Dalits and others all over Maharashtra, She is one of the vibrant singer-poet of the Kabir Kala Manch. Attacked for her trenchant critique of the caste order, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) – currently behind the attacks of students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (...
February 16, 2016
PATIALA COURT HOUSE ASSAULT IS A BLACK MARK ON A FREE SOCIETY!
SCRIBES TO PROTEST ON WED, 17TH FEBRUARY TO CONDEMN ATTACKS!
The Mumbai Press Club is shocked and disturbed at the attack on journalists on duty at the Capital’s Patiala Court premises by Men in Black claiming to be lawyers, and some goons led by BJP Delhi MLA O.P. Sharma. The brutal violence inflicted on scribes...
February 14, 2016
14 अगस्त 2015 को आसिया अन्दराबी ने पाकिस्तान का स्वतंत्रता दिवस मनाया और लश्कर-ए-तय्यबा के आतंकवादियों को फ़ोन पर सम्बोधित भी किया, तब तो ऐसा कोई हंगामा नहीं हुआ. आठ महीने पहले जम्मू में भिंडरावाले का 'शहीदी दिवस' मनाने के लिए पोस्टर लगाना देशद्रोह नहीं था क्या? तब वहाँ ख़ालिस्तान और पाकिस्तान समर्थक नारे भी लगे. क्या वह देशद्रोह नहीं था? दोनों ही घटनाओं के समय जम्मू-कश्मीर...
February 12, 2016
New socialist Initiative (NSI)
invites you to a public meeting on Hindutva Assault on Dalit Assertions
Chair
Amrapali Basumatary (Kirori Mal College / NSI)
Speakers
Prof. Vivek Kumar (JNU)
Dr. Dharamvir Gandhi (M.P, Patiala, Punjab)
Subhash Gatade (Activist & Author / NSI)...
February 11, 2016
Second Edition, Enlarged and updated
Subjects: History and archaeology, Politics and governance, Social studies
Pub. Date January 2016
Pages pp xiv+246 pages, includes notes and bibliography
Dimensions demy octavo 8.5 x 5.5 in.
Click here to read postscirpt by: Jairus Banaji
February 10, 2016
It is paradoxical in the extreme; it’s also a fact of life. Muftis, qazis, maulanas and molvis in India keep proclaiming that Islam has given justice and rights to women that no other religion has. The fact however is that thanks to the clerics, in the name of the Muslim Personal Law in India, when it comes to gender relations, the plight of Muslim women in secular democratic India is far...
February 2, 2016
INVITATION:
Performance and Talk by Shital Sathe and Troupe Venue: Press Club, New Delhi
Date: Sunday, 7 Feb. 2016
Time: 3 to 5 pm
Shital Sathe, the dynamic poet-singer from Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) and some of her new co-performers will sing and speak at the Press Club at 3 pm on Sunday.
It may be recalled that the KKM, a working class and mostly Dalit cultural troupe...