A look at three of Ambedkar's ideals which are essential if we want to build a better future for India.
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Campus, Constellation, and Caste: Dalit-Bahujan Students and the Unending Battle of Belonging
After a long struggle, affirmative action policies allowed first-generation Dalit-Bahujan students to enter the university campuses and their entries into the campuses have been seen as a threat to …
Interview: How Somnath Waghmare Draws Parallels Between Documentaries and Politics
In an interview, documentary filmmaker Somnath Waghmare speaks about how he uses the medium as a visual tool to understand society and its relationship with politics.
Reducing Dalits to Mere Beneficiaries: The Neo-Brahmanism of the Sangh Parivar in Karnataka
The Sangh parivar's response to the Karnataka BJP accepting the Justice Das Committee's recommendations to increase reservation for SCs and STs betrays the contradictions between the saffron party's ideology …
Jharkhand: Panel Probing Dalit Minor’s Self-Immolation Submits Report, Family Given Rs 25,000
The 15-year-old student told police that on October 14, a woman invigilator made her remove clothes in a room adjacent to a classroom during an exam to check if …
Karnataka: Dalit Workers Assaulted, Locked Up For Days; Pregnant Woman Loses Baby
According to the complainant, 16 people were kept under house arrest for 15 days.
Revisiting the Wrongs of Bahujan Politics
There is an urgent need to revive Dr. Ambedkar’s Republican ideology to save our socialist secular democracy.
Karnataka: Dalit Family Fined Rs 60,000 After a Teen ‘Touches’ Hindu Deity Idol
The village elders ruled that the boy had touched the pole connected to the idol of Sidiranna, a prominent south Indian village deity, during a procession and the idol …