Dalits in 21st Century’s India
Dawn of 21st century, for Dalits, should have been better because of the long war they waged on superstructures of discrimination, the price they have paid with their lives, agony,…
Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao
Vedicisation of India
Natural rationalism, human engagement with natural reality, social institutions and production process are the only factors which have been playing important role in shaping the human way of way of…
Consciously Superstitious Elite and Flourishing Superstitions in India
In a country where almost eighty percent of population live in rural India and at least sixty of India population is illiterate and uneducated, it is quite depressing to know…
Privatisation as a Counter to Dalit Assertion
For Dalits now and backward castes then, from Phule to Periyar, while the education provided by the ancient natural philosophies like Budhism, modern egalitarian religions like Christianity, exploitative but ‘progressive’…
Be him Anyone’s Ram, Will he ever be Everyone’s?
Will there be any use in searching answer to a question like this? For me, no. There is no point at all. But then, hey, should not we discuss and…
Criminalization of Dalit Thought and Action
Assertion of Dalits and consciousness that began flowering in the second half of twentieth century was not to create submissive Dalits to any force of oppression. Its intention was very…
Ambedkar on the Attic
Many would complain that it is unfair to limit Ambedkar to one community. Yes, it is true that his writings, his activism, his work as minister, constitutionalist, law maker does…
The Politics of the Idea of India
What is India? A question can neither be answered nor be defined easily. However, we celebrate India as a civilization, as an idea, as a nation, as a notion…
Lynching: Casteist, Communal and Fascist Tool of Violence in India
Violence has always been a tool of oppression, suppression and subordination. Though every form of violence is illegal according to the law of the land, dominant social forces (upper…
Rationalism as a Way of Life
What is’way of life’? Till the emergence of organised religions, it seems there is no point in history where there has been a single ‘way of life’. In actuality, human…
Dalits under Hindutva
Dalits or the untouchables in India, as the Hindu social order placed them in the category of outcastes or people with no caste have taken up Buddhism, Islam and Christianity…
Is Ambedkar still an Untouchable in India?
On 16th May 2015, Sagar Shejwal, a young nursing student, in temple town Shirdi, Maharastra, was beaten to death for keeping Bhimrao Amedhkar song as ringtone, Chandra Sekar Azad ‘Ravan’…
The Death of Public University
Forgetting the relationship between education and society and ignoring the required engagement between thinker theorists and innovators on one side and society on the other, the governments, legislators and people…
Transformation of Caste/Religious Minorities into ‘Composite Majority’ to Counter Majoritarianism in India
Nature of Majority Though every nation in the world is multi-religious and multi-cultural, in every nation, at least, there is one majority community that is based on religion, language, ethnicity,…
Domination Of The Other Is Inbuilt In The Ideology Of Majoritarianism
In the modern democratic societies, the emergence of majoritarianism, as political ideology is a organised well thought of response of the social, religious, ethnic and racial majorities to the new…
Technology, Lies And False Propaganda
Melvin Krazberg who was considered to be father of History of technology proposed six laws of technology in its relationship with society know as 'Krazberg laws'. The first law is…
A Cursory Look At The Government, Religion And Reason In Contemporary Times
Civilised society, in India, is failing in all counts and working hard to prove that all that is so far, even it is quite minimal, acquired as positive civilisational characters…
Can We Revive Periyarism?
Looking at the strengthening negative attitude of people towards positive ideologies, cultivation of which has given the opportunity to India to stand tall among other civilisations, anti-Periyarism not only throughout…
What Is New In Today’s New India?
Change is constant and it is what history is according to Herodotus. For Greeks, it was change and for Romans it was continuity. R. G. Collingwood saw this scientificity and…
Rescuing The Historical ‘Asura’ From Ahistory
The educated and intellectual who have acquired the required radicality in opposing the domination and in questioning or challenging the ahistoricality of the classical culture which is executes itself or…
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