For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Vaibhav Babarao Abhyankar Recently, in Maharashtra’s Pune district, a tragic event occurred where a Dalit boy who married a girl from the Maratha community (so-called upper caste) was brutally murdered by his spouse’s family members. This highlights the ongoing issue of honour killings related to inter-caste marriages in India. Earlier, such incidents happened in Maharashtra …
Lokesh Bag A pattern appears almost every time someone from a marginalized community raises their voice. It doesn’t matter how deep the pain is or how much evidence they carry; if the tone is not soft enough, it gets rejected. It becomes more pronounced when the person is a Dalit. This is tone policing—silencing disguised …
Kangsa Manlong After an Assam grass-roots language revival effort known as ‘Learn Ahom’ gained attention, digital commentator Aboyob Bhuyan and his platform The Truth India launched a furious counter-attack. In his usual third-person bombastic style, Bhuyan has repeatedly named Learn Ahom as “anti-Assamese” or even “pro-Pakistan,” accusing the project of fomenting communal division. In reality, …
Anshul Kumar Ever since the Arab Spring erupted in Egypt and its neighbouring countries, the victory of democracy was touted as possible only because of the internet revolution. At that time, Twitter had a role as an alternative form of media, over which dictatorial regimes in the Middle East had little or no control. The …
Umar Nizarudeen It has been said that Foucault was never enough of a Foucauldian. The epistemological ruptures and scales and the power figure of Foucault himself as the master signifier have not been obvious enough to the author’s function itself. But Derrida, on the other hand, has been painstakingly conscious that his writing had to …
Dr Md Afroz & Dr Tabrez Alam “We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well.”–B.R. Ambedkar Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, envisioned a republic built not just on paper laws but on the lived reality of social justice, liberty, and fraternity. His foresight was prophetic. As India …
Dr. Hemraj P. Jangir Every year on April 14, as we celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti, we rightfully remember Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the principal architect of the Indian Constitution and an uncompromising advocate for social justice. But on this day of reflection and recommitment, it is also time to recognize an often-overlooked facet of his legacy—his …
Neeraj Madke Dr. B R Ambedkar, a pioneering social reformer and the architect of the Indian Constitution, has contributed to Indian society beyond legal and political reforms. They are also deeply rooted in his psychological insights into Indian social behaviour and his life. Ambedkar was a scholar of multiple disciplines, including political science, law, economics, …
Ruth Chawngthu Infighting is often framed as a failure of solidarity, but it is only a symptom. It does not mean that we do not want to understand each other. Various studies have shown that Dalits, Adivasis/Indigenous people, LGBT+ persons, women, and religious minorities face systemic discrimination in psychiatric care, including misdiagnoses, undertreatment, and dismissal …
