Feb - March 2009
Editorial
It was not surprising that the Indian media, while covering Obama's march, forgot to tell us about the African-Americans' struggle for equal opportunity, about the civil rights movement, about Rosa Park and Martin Luther King. They want to make us...
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On Suicides, Caste and Higher Education
Death seems to be the only legitimate form of protest for the Dalit students to highlight their discrimination as well as their right for equal share in the higher educational sphere. The 'Dalitness' of these students, in the modern spaces,...
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Chengara Land Struggle
In one of the biggest-ever Dalit uprisings, in the history of post-independent India, more than 20,000 people, demanding land rights for the landless Dalits, Adivasis and other poor, have been fighting against the combined might of the state, hostile media...
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Caste Discrimination in IIT Delhi
Recently IIT Delhi was in news due to the termination of 12 Dalit students together with the allegations of caste-based discrimination. In the wake of this incident, the author here has tried to map the experiences of Dalit students within...
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Remembering Marichjhapi Massacre, 1979
Thousands of Dalit refugees were killed by the West Bengal government, in one of the biggest human rights violation in post independent India. Due to the conspiratorial silence of the Bengali civil society not much is know to outsiders. Below...
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Politics of Syllabus
Brahmanism is trifle subdued in School textbooks in Bihar as compared to textbooks from other states, but it is definitely not absent. This is despite the fact that the State has been ruled by the non-Congress, self-styled champions of social...
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“Benefits of Reservation should reach all”
Suresh kumar Digumarthi is one of the leading student activists in the University of Hyderabad. Here he interacts with Anoop Kumar on various issues concerning University Dalit student community....
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Through the Lens of Pollution
Bounded by caste, customs and traditions, the Dalits involved in manual scavenging find no legal recourse despite the enactment of law prohibiting the practice. A close reading of the law reveals that the state also never intended to do so....
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“The Need of Cultural Revolution in West Bengal”
Dr. Anjan Ghosh teaches Sociology in Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), Kolkata. Here, he interacts with Sandali on various issues in context of caste in West Bengal....
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Past, Present and Future
I was crying, though, these incidents had taken place years ago. I began to get to know my forefathers intimately. I realized that I had inherited their will power, their spirit of good will and their willingness to work hard....
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Our Icon : Savitribai Phule
India's first woman teacher, a radical exponent of mass and female education, a champion of women's liberation, a pioneer in engaged poetry, a courageous mass leader who undertook on the forces of caste and patriarchy is largely a unknown figure...
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Voices
Two poems reflecting on the discrimination and alienation suffered by the Dalit students in the higher education in the country. ...
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