Untouchability Walls keep rising and falling in Tamil Nadu. BR Ambedkar wrote in Annihilation of Caste that “…the world owes much to rebels who would dare to argue in the face of the pontiff and insist that he is not infallible. I do not care about the credit which every progressive society must give to its rebels. … Continue reading Whatever Happened to Struggle Against Untouchability →
December 25, 1968, termed as ‘Black Thursday’, saw the first mass crime against Dalits in independent India, who were fighting for respectable wages under the leadership of the Communist Party. Image for representational use only; Image Courtesy : Socialist India P Srinivasan, a veteran village functionary who cremates the dead had, in an interview done … Continue reading 50 Years Later, Shadow of Keezhvenmani Continues to Hover Over our Republic →
This is a guest post by FRANCIS CODY All who did and most who did not support the Chief Minister are in mourning, in some form or another. J. Jayalalithaa is no more. A cinema star-turned-leader, whose determination in the face of massive adversity had won her the titles of ‘Iron Butterfly’ and ‘Revolutionary Leader’, […]
