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Smruti Koppikar
Shahu Maharaj: Why he Matters Today as Much as a Century Ago
27 Jun 2021
His relevance has not diminished almost a century later, for social equality is an unfinished project in India.
Meenakshi Moon, Urmila Pawar, Wandana Sonalkar
We Also Made History
30 Apr 2021
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar’s We Also Made History, translated into English by Wandana Sonalkar, details the history of women’s participation in the dalit…
Subhash Gatade
Why Ensuring Dalit Human Rights is Still a Tough Task in the 21st Century
24 Apr 2021
'Sunped in Haryana and Natham in Tamil Nadu, separated from each other by hundreds of kilometers, populated by communities speaking different languages and cultures, find themselves connected because…
Aakash Singh Rathore, ICF Team
On BR Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice
21 Apr 2021
“Quest for Equity: Reclaiming Social Justice, Revisiting Ambedkar” was the title of an international conference hosted by the government of Karnataka in 2017.
Rachna Agarwal
Who is Responsible for Killings in the Name of Honour?
14 Apr 2021
In 1936, BR Ambedkar had said caste must be annihilated to rid India of regressive social norms related to caste, gotra, class, religion, and gender.
Ananya Vajpeyi
BR Ambedkar: The Life of the Mind and a Life in Politics
14 Apr 2021
The caste system could not be cleaned up — it had to be annihilated.
Shravan MK
Union Budget and the Political Economy of Manual Scavenging
12 Apr 2021
'The Hindutva regime's interests lie in ease of business motive policies that exacerbate inequality, occupational subjugation, and worsen socio-economic issues.'
Kalyani
Why Dalit-Bahujan Icons of Cultural Resistance are Under Attack
10 Jan 2021
Cultural assertion and dissent are being reduced to “sedition” and subjected to troll armies and threats.
S N Sahu
Ambedkar’s Vision Can Defeat Vision Represented by Those Who Demolished Babri Mosque
08 Dec 2020
The sombre nature of Parinirvan associated with Dr. Ambedkar's sad demise and evocative of a legacy associated with Lord Buddha stands in agonising contrast to the demolition of Babri Mosque.
Subhash Gatade
How Can India Reinvigorate Phule’s Revolutionary Legacy?
28 Nov 2020
Remembering a colossus in the times of Hindutva.