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Review: Rethinking Untouchability by Jesús F Cháirez-Garza

This defence of Ambedkar’s praxis is a study of the leader’s political thought in the years before India’s independence

Books

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 07:54 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

Review: The Past is Never Dead by Ujjal Dosanjh

A debut novel that packs in a good overview of Punjab’s caste history as it is transposed into the settlements of second and third generation Punjabis in the UK

A scene in Regent Street, London, in June 2022 during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd’s accession to the throne. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Books

Updated on Mar 09, 2024 06:36 AM IST

BySuraj Yengde

Review: Breaking Barriers by K Madhava Rao

A book that forces naysayers to acknowledge the reality of Dalit merit and provides invaluable insider knowledge about what it takes to become an upright officer in the civil services

With former president of India, KR Narayanan and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandra Babu Naidu. (From Breaking Barriers by K Madhava Rao)

books

Updated on Aug 28, 2023 02:06 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

A giant of Ambedkarite movement passes away

Lahori Ram Balley, a prominent figure in the Ambedkarite Buddhist movement in India and one of the last associates of Dr BR Ambedkar, has passed away.

Born in a Dalit family on July 20, 1930, Balley was educated in Arya mission schools. (HT Photo)

opinion

Published on Jul 19, 2023 12:12 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

Review: Water in a Broken Pot byYogesh Maitreya

Justifying the author’s vulnerabilities with elaborate social commentary, this Dalit memoir lucidly decodes society’s ways of sensing and seeing

Author Yogesh Maitreya (Courtesy Penguin)

books

Updated on Jul 07, 2023 11:39 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

The case of the missing PhDs

IIM-A has issued 378 doctorates so far. Of these 378, how many were from constitutionally protected categories? We don’t know yet. To get a sense of the answer, you need to take a look at the number of IIM faculty members from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups.

IIM Ahmedabad invited students to apply for doctoral programmes in 11 fields. (Representational image)(HT file)

education

Published on Oct 09, 2019 10:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySuraj Yengde

Landlessness takes away Dalits’ legal and official validity as Indian citizens

Citizenship requires entitlement to resources. The community must stake claim to State-owned land.

According to the recent data published by the Census of India, 71% Dalits are landless labourers who work on land they do not own.(Ravindra Joshi/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Published on Jul 01, 2019 09:00 AM IST

BySuraj Yengde

To make their voices heard, Dalits need to protest 365 days a year

Unless the constituency demands their fair share and refuses to bow down, the State order is going patronise a stepfatherly treatment to the Dalits

Members of various student organisations express solidarity with the Dalit Student Rohith Vemula. Unless Dalits move away from the personality of victimhood and assert a responsive strategy, their life will be doomed to failure and untimely death.(Hindustan Times)

analysis

Published on Apr 12, 2018 12:29 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

The works of Ambedkar, Du Bois and Fanon reflect the common story of marginalisation across communities

The reason the three people become more relevant to our contemporary times suggests that we still hold age-old discriminations like caste, race, gender and sexuality close to our hearts and we are constantly on a mission to develop new models of suppression

A protest against an attack on Dalits, Una, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, July 31, 2016(AFP)

opinion

Published on Feb 23, 2018 06:50 PM IST

BySuraj Yengde

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This defence of Ambedkar’s praxis is a study of the leader’s political thought in the years before India’s independence

A debut novel that packs in a good overview of Punjab’s caste history as it is transposed into the settlements of second and third generation Punjabis in the UK

A book that forces naysayers to acknowledge the reality of Dalit merit and provides invaluable insider knowledge about what it takes to become an upright officer in the civil services

Lahori Ram Balley, a prominent figure in the Ambedkarite Buddhist movement in India and one of the last associates of Dr BR Ambedkar, has passed away.

Justifying the author’s vulnerabilities with elaborate social commentary, this Dalit memoir lucidly decodes society’s ways of sensing and seeing

IIM-A has issued 378 doctorates so far. Of these 378, how many were from constitutionally protected categories? We don’t know yet. To get a sense of the answer, you need to take a look at the number of IIM faculty members from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups.

Citizenship requires entitlement to resources. The community must stake claim to State-owned land.

Unless the constituency demands their fair share and refuses to bow down, the State order is going patronise a stepfatherly treatment to the Dalits

The reason the three people become more relevant to our contemporary times suggests that we still hold age-old discriminations like caste, race, gender and sexuality close to our hearts and we are constantly on a mission to develop new models of suppression

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