The recent spate of attacks on dalits in the state is an indicator of the fact that the unfolding project of RSS’s Hindu Rashtra has entered a new phase where the community is being construed as the ‘new other’. When I was born, I was not a child I was a dream, a dream of … Continue reading Gujarat Today Could be What ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Will Look Like for Dalits →
Can Dalits rightfully claim that they have a ‘homeland’? ( Review of The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate — Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste; By Arundhati Roy, Penguin, Rs 299) “Gandhiji, I have no homeland.” The first meeting between Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, who later became chairman of the drafting committee of … Continue reading Caste and other demons →
USS passe rani hai, iss passe Gandhi!” (“On that side is the Queen, on this is Gandhi) (https://indianexpress.com/elections/patiala-dharamvira-gandhi-aap-elect…) Nawan Punjab Party’s candidate ex MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi’s election campaign and the way he projected his appeal as ‘battle against the royals’ had rightly evoked interest in a section of the media as well as … Continue reading Rainbo
Extract from the Preface of ‘Hindutva’s Second Coming’ Preface Democracy as Majoritarianism “We can never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal,’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did was ‘illegal.’ It was ‘illegal’ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, but I am sure that if I lived in … Continue reading Democracy as Majoritarianism →
Guest post by TAMOGHNA HALDER “It was the unlikeliest setting for a ‘literature festival’. A run-down auditorium with rickety chairs secured with rope. Noisy ceiling and pedestal fans. Battle scarred tables covered with threadbare cloth.
Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination was a culmination of a vicious campaign launched by Hindu communal groups in post-independent India File Photo : Modi – India’s New Mahatma It is far too early to dismiss the possibility of a future Hindu State in India. However, the possibility does not appear a strong one. The secular state has … Continue reading Gandhi’s Assassination – Much More Than Just a Murder →
This is a guest post by New Socialist Initiative New Socialist Initiative stands in solidarity with the people of Assam, Tripura and the other North Eastern states in their heroic struggle against the communally motivated Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).
( अकार, 51 – हिंदी समाज पर केंद्रित अंक में जल्द ही प्रकाशित) ‘देवताओं, मंदिरों और ऋषियों का यह देश ! इसलिए क्या यहां सबकुछ अमर है ? वर्ण अमर, जाति अमर, अस्पृश्यता अमर ! ..युग के बाद युग आए ! बड़े बड़े चक्रवर्ती आये ! ..दार्शनिक आए ! फिर भी अस्पृश्यता , विषमता अमर है !
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 →
Guest Post by 70 People’s Organizations of Assam ( Photo Courtesy : AISA) Protestors from various democratic organisations in Assam have began an indefinite dharna in Jantar Mantar from today 9 Dec.
