The Boy Who Dared to Drink
Moved by the death of Indra Kumar Meghwal at the hands of his teacher, a poet wields his pen and lashes at the age-old caste system that keeps many at the receiving end of injustice
‘Citizens Without Citizenship’: How True Freedom Still Eludes India’s Denotified, Nomadic Tribes
Like the Roma and Sinti of Europe, Indian nomadic groups were also criminalised. After 75 years, the government must recognise their economic and social rights.
Why are the Twenty-Two Vows Necessary for Neo-Buddhists?
The 22 vows of Babasaheb can free the newly ordained Buddhists from the anti-human beliefs of Hinduism and bind them to the human beliefs of Buddhism. These vows are not anti-Hindu in any way but give guidelines for the followers of Buddhism which each religion gives.
Vulnerable and Marginalised at Receiving End of Climate Change
A recent study on impact of droughts catalysed by climate change on Dalits and the Adivasis of Marathwada region of Maharashtra points to the grim reality that it is the socially and economically vulnerable who are the worst sufferers of these weather-related natural disasters.
The Time Has Come to Bring Ambedkar and Gandhi Together
The struggle for inter-faith harmony remains vital and urgent. To overcome the malign forces of Hindutva, we need Ambedkar and Gandhi on the same side.
Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising – Two Articles
Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising: Oxfam; India Enters ‘Amrit Kaal’ with Growing Atrocities Against Dalits.
The Importance of Anand Teltumbde’s Thoughts in a Republic of Caste
As an email circulates to support a campaign to name Professor Anand Teltumbde in the list of world’s top thinkers to be listed in ‘Prospect’ magazine, it is time to take note of his important work: ‘Republic of Caste’ (2018) and put it in perspective.
India’s Fall From Ambedkar Jal Satyagraha to Indra Meghwal
The Jalore tragedy represents our failure to reform. Discrimination and exclusion persist in their most severe forms, which cannot happen without institutional neglect, even condonation.
Even After a Century, Water Is Still the Marker of India’s Caste Society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
Dalit Villagers Wanted to Present a Coin to the President. The State Stopped Them.
Thousands of Dalit people funded a symbolic gesture of gifting the Indian parliament a 10-tonne coin calling for the realisation of Ambedkar’s dream of untouchability-free India. They were stopped at Haryana’s borders.