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Stand with Professor Hany Babu and Anti Caste Workers- 09/2019
READ: SOLIDARITY STATEMENT FOR HANY BABU by CURRENT AND FORMER STUDENTS from ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DELHI UNIVERSITY Students and faculty gathered on 12th September 12, 2019 in support and solidarity with Professor Hany Babu of the English Department at Delhi University. According to him, around 20 officers from the Pune police arrived at his residence at 6.30…
Exit the guru, enter the Teacher
Savitribai Phule's struggle against Brahmanism and patriarchy to educate shudra and dalit girls of her time makes her worthy of national recognition as a true 'teacher', rather than a sanitized Brahmin figure notoriously associated with plagiarism. The life and work of the Phules repudiates the elite desire of keeping education 'free' of politics. They are…
An assault on Transgender rights- The Transgender Persons Bill 2016
Winter set in this time with the air of the Capital as the first to represent the metaphorical filth in the air of the country quite literally, as it descended and settled down as a stubborn smog and made every breath a necessary poison of sorts. The dry chill of December has begin to set…
Resisting patriarchy in BHU and Modi’s home
A first-year hostel resident was molested and grabbed by three bike-borne men just outside the BHU campus on Thursday evening. According to NDTV, the protesting students have been trying to meet the vice chancellor to apprise him of the safety situation and to urge him to take necessary steps. But on Saturday night, as they tried to enter his residence,…
The filth we are all in
It needs to be expressed vehemently that such dehumanization and coercion as manual scavenging has no place in a civilized society with human dignity at the core. The bleak and brutal tragedy of a human life ebbing out, surrounded by the refuse of entire city blocks, breathing in the stinking, noxious fumes in some manhole…
How the mob is tearing the social fabric
“He was a child. He was just 16. How could they hate us so much to have killed him so brutally? When I reached the spot, my son Hashim was sitting on the station with Junaid’s body soaked in blood in his lap..." - the father of Junaid, a 16-year old boy stabbed to death…
A hindu rashtra holds us down
how to lynch a man it’s really simple. what you need first is a man, preferably alone, poor or looking... poor, carrying no weapons and exhausted from work, starving, and apparently belonging to a lower caste or a muslim. next you need a slogan. it could be anything from har har mahadev to jai durga…
A Year since Rohit Vemula
Rohit Vemula committed suicide on 17 January last year. What transpired in between, and on the first anniversary of his institutional murder, was both repression and a resilience against it. The repression could be seen in the hysterics of Smriti Irani in Parliament last year, the relentless move to disprove his dalit identity and the…
DO THE CHILDREN KNOW AMBEDKAR?
TELL YOUR KIDS ABOUT AMBEDKAR I do not, in my entire time in school remember hearing of or learning about Dr. Ambedkar’s work in any significant way other than the bland fact that he was supposed t… Source: DO THE CHILDREN KNOW AMBEDKAR?