Current Affairs
Obituary: When Dishom Guru’s defiant dares shook the hills
The land on which the public meeting was being held in Bokaro belonged to Bhavesh Manjhi but had been grabbed by moneylenders. Shibu Soren declared from the dais, ‘From this day, from this moment, this...
The teacher who wrote the poem ‘Kanwar Lene Mat Jana’ speaks his mind
“Some good-for-nothing Savarna teachers only kill time in school. Who attends government schools these days? Only children from SC, ST and Muslim families. Teachers with a Savarna mindset want them to remain unlettered slaves,” says...
Obituary: Prof Nandu Ram – who introduced Ambedkarism to JNU
Only a scholar like Prof Nandu Ram could have written ‘Beyond Ambedkar: Essays on Dalits in India’ (1995) and the first encyclopaedia on Scheduled Castes in India. The ‘Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes in India’ was...
Special Intensive Revision (SIR): Conspiracy to disfranchise the Dalitbahujan
Santosh is incensed that the BLO is not visiting the homes of the poor. Instead, he is asking them to come to the local school to fill out the form and submit it. “Why is...
Jharkhand: Why insist on building RIMS-2 on Adivasi farmland?
Ample land belonging to the HEC is lying unused. There is no dearth of land outside the Fifth-Schedule...
Slums (and their demolition) are a monument to the State’s casteist mindset
Without affordable housing, those who build and keep the cities running, most of them Dalit, OBC and Adivasi,...
SP’s ‘PDA’ is not an alternative to BSP’s ‘Bahujan’
Kanshi Ram’s emphasis on putting the principles of the Constitution into practice was fundamental to his view of...
Laxman Yadav: ‘Manusmriti’ could only be taught alongside ‘Gulamgiri’ and ‘Annihilation of Caste’
‘The situation today is that even if the BJP loses the next election, teachers wedded to the RSS...
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