The Quint Documentary: Marching with the Bhim Army #AmbedkarsArmy. A film by Esha Paul and Aman Sethi. "What’s it like to set up a Dalit youth army to fight caste atrocities in one of India’s most violent states? Immerse yourself in our documentary on the Bhim Army to find out [see the video on (...)
Government refusing to learn a lesson from its past failures to forcibly acquire Adivasi land.
Over hundred MoUs were signed between the Government and companies for acquisition of lakhs of acres of mostly Adivasi land that would result in the displacement of lakhs of Adivasis. People resisted (...)
Historic Injustice: The Supreme Court of India in a landmark judgment (Criminal Appeal No: 11 of 2011) observes: “The injustice done to the tribal people of India is a shameful chapter in our country’s history. The tribals were called `rakshas’ (demons), `asuras’, and what not. They were (...)
“The oppressor is solidary with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labor — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic (...)
“We would therefore propose to replace the state everywhere by Gemeinwesen, a good old German word which can very well convey the meaning of the French word commune.” Frederick Engels.
“Inequality is the soul of Hinduism. The morality of Hinduism is only social. It is unmoral and inhuman to say (...)
The ferment on campuses across the country following Rohith Vemula’s suicide and the recent crackdown on free speech at Jawaharlal Nehru University have drawn international attention, with many academics, students and activists across the world expressing solidarity. The mobilisation of Dalit (...)
The present regime seems to regard volatile student debates and protests on burning contemporary issues as subversive tendencies spreading hatred.
There is a direct link between the circumstances leading to the tragic suicide of Ambedkarite Dalit student Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad University (...)
A selected compilation of responses by Academics, Scholars and Concerned Citizens to the suicide of the PhD student of University of Hyderabad in January 2016.
Scholars’ Statement
Statement by concerned scholars following Rohith Vemula’s death
22 January
The suicide of Rohith Vemula is now (...)
Remember Rohith Vemula and Cry Death to Brahmanism: Dalit Suicides Are Systemic and must be resisted by making Anti-casteism a Core Issue of Social Movements
Radical Socialist condemns the state and University organised repressions on Dalit students that culminated in the suicide of Rohith (...)
Tamil Nadu has many distinctions in terms of development indicators, compared to other states. In contrast, intra state comparisons between rural and urban, land owning and landless, organized and unorganized workers and the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and others section of the (...)
RADICAL SOCIALIST STATEMENT ON IIT MADRAS’ DERECOGNITION OF AMBEKAR-PERIYAR STUDY CIRCLE
We condemn the decision taken by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), on May 22, to ‘derecognise’ the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle (APSC), an independent student body of the institution. (...)
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) decided, on May 22, to ‘derecognise’ the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle (APSC), an independent student body of the institution. The APSC was created in April 2014 to foster conversation and raise awareness about Ambedkar-Periyar, Dalit figures (...)
SARA ABRAHAM SPOKE with Indian writer and commentator Shashank Kela in December 2014. Kela has published A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000 (Navayana Publishing, 2012), which attempts to put contemporary struggles in India in historical context. He writes occasionally on (...)
It’s fashionable in some circles to claim that discrimination based on caste has steadily decreased in India, as it’s bound to, thanks to modernisation, urbanisation and industrialisation. The character of caste is itself changing from a system of social hierarchy based on birth and ritual (...)
Caste hierarchy is the major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many a theories, which have tried to understand its origin. The latest in the series is the attempt of RSS to show its genesis due to invasion of (...)
The killings of Mahendra Karma and his colleagues call not for retributive violence but for a deeper reflection on the discontent among the tribals of central India and their dispossession
In the summer of 2006, I had a long conversation with Mahendra Karma, the Chhattisgarh Congress leader (...)
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Index: ASA 20/047/2011
11 October 2011
India: Chhattisgarh should drop charges against Prisoners of Conscience Soni Sodi and Lingaram Kodopi and unconditionally release them
Amnesty International urges authorities in the central Indian state of (...)
The ’Sandwich Theory’
I was piqued by the phrase ’sandwich theory’ when I first heard it from Delhi students. They were referring to the views of a section of articulate, influential, middle India in the wake of the controversies over Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh and now Operation Green Hunt. The (...)
Following statement was jointly issued by Left and democratic parties (mentioned at the end) on 25 March at Bhubaneswar.
Yesterday the Collector of Jajpur district assured Dabar Kalundia, a tribal leader of Bisthapan Birodhi Jan Manch (BBJM) that he would come to Baligotha village on 28 March (...)
Post card campaign and Cycle Rally launched to condemn the State sponsored killings of tribals in Chhattisgarh and to demand that Mr. Chidambaram stop the tribal atrocities immediately
25/1/2010, Chennai: Speaking out against the State-sponsored killings and rapes of adivasis of Dantewada (...)
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