Eliminating Caste System, Communal Fascism, Patriarchy, and Neo-Liberalism: Does Neo-Dalit Movement Provide an Answer?
Hindu caste system divides the society into social classes or castes. This graded inequality has the sanction of classical Indian religious scriptures. The caste hierarchy dictates the lives of...
August 9 Bandh to be a Show of Dalit Assertion
The immediate provocation for the Bharat Bandh is the reluctance of the government to listen to the Dalit protest against dilution of the SC/ST (prevention of atrocities) Act 1989,...
Human Rights Justice: Methods of Testimonial Therapy to Generate Human Rights Movement – II
In the second and final part of the research article, Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) examines the methods of Testimonial Therapy (TT) to generate the human rights movement. He tells...
Thousands attend 127th Birth Anniversary Meet of Ambedkar, Demand Withdrawal of SC decision and Cases
On April 2 upper caste chauvinist character of government machinery was in full display when demonstrators were lathi-charged and tear gassed, fired upon and killed, arrested and tortured in...
Is the Country Progressing if a Rickshaw Puller or a Daily Wage Labourer Sleeps Hungry?
Economists believe that although there is economic bullishness in government, there is economic gloom in reality in the country. Fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP has declined from...
A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S
Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...
Is the Indian Democracy Declining?
Our Editor-at-Large, Norway-based Amit, focuses on the declining democratic values and rising fascistic, extremist and dictatorial tendencies in contemporary Indian politics and society. An expose with hard facts, exclusively...
How Media Constructs Identities and Influences us
Media uses language to construct public perception through style, structure, and images. It also presents an implicitly biased perspective to a wide audience on certain issues and sometimes,...