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This is another conversation with Thiru K Veermani which was recorded on November 1st, 2019. Veeramani says that Periyar was not opposed to Hindi, he was against its imposition on Tamil Nadu; the RSS wants to impose Hindutva culture on Tamil Nadu.
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
The Dalits and Tribals of UP are mostly landless, low income and unemployed, which is the main reason for their social, economic and political backwardness. Successive governments of UP have not taken any measures to help these lowest sections of society; the BJP is worsening their situation.
The unique life of Bharat Bhushan Ambedkar has become a new source of inspiration for devotees. From it has emerged a new deity and the lamp that will be burning in its temple in this land of temples will be seen from all sides of the nation and from distant corners of the world.
At a time when caste supremacy and religious intolerance corrode the idea of India, when power is being used to further sectarian interests, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj’s legacy lights the path ahead.
Dr Ambedkar’s book, Annihilation of Caste, continues to trigger the orthodox minds even today and that’s why it is, unfortunately, rarely discoursed on in the social sphere and in academic spaces.
Siddalingaiah, who passed away on June 11, was not only a poet, but also an activist and public intellectual all his life. A key figure in the Dalit movement of the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti in Karnataka.
The vocal, sustained and fiercely vehement opposition of the DMK to the New Education Policy ever since its draft released in 2019, has been barely a matter of surprise to close watchers and chroniclers of the Dravidian movement.
In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.
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