Bhima Koregoan – The Latest Battlefield Of Dalit Resistance
Dear Friend,
Dalits are rising up in many parts of India. Millennia old shackles are being broken and the oppressed classes of India are marching in unison in streets of India. It all started with the attack on Dalits who were celebrating the historic victory of a Dalit army on their oppressors. Dr. Goldy M George writes, "the gruesome attack on unarmed people signifies the fear and unwillingness of dominant caste Hindus even to imagine the reduction of the power of caste Hindus and some disturbance in the social order under the Hindutva mechanics. Instead of accepting the fact that Brahimincal order has infact enslaved each other under the ambit of caste, they opted to denounce those who assembled in Koregoan as anti-national. Had Babasaheb Ambedkar been alive today, he would have been another of those anti-nationals while the RSS-BJP state would not have a second thought to send him to prison."
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Bhima Koregoan – The Latest Battlefield Of Dalit Resistance
by Dr Goldy M. George
The gruesome attack on unarmed people signifies the fear and unwillingness of dominant caste Hindus even to imagine the reduction of the power of caste Hindus and some disturbance in the social order under the Hindutva mechanics. Instead of accepting the fact that Brahimincal order has infact enslaved each other under the ambit of caste, they opted to denounce those who assembled in Koregoan as anti-national. Had Babasaheb Ambedkar been alive today, he would have been another of those anti-nationals while the RSS-BJP state would not have a second thought to send him to prison.
Dalit Resistance And Violence
by Red Panther
In one of his polemical editorial article Ambedkar in 1940 and nails it on the head saying: If the means of non-violence would suffice to attain an end, then there should be no need to resort to brute force. However, should non-violent means not be sufficient to achieve an end, and if the end would suffer on this account, then only a fool would insist that no other means but non-violence should be adopted…it would indeed be a sin to use brute force as a means to do injustice to someone, but there would be nothing sinful about using brute force to put an end to brute force.
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by Eric Zuesse
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by Franklin Lamb
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The Madrasa Myth
by Moin Qazi
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Fandom And Misogyny
by Gokul Balu
Recently an incident caught the headline for all the wrong reasons and it was regarding how a Malayalam film actress is being constantly harassed on social media by self-proclaimed fans of a superstar of the same industry for speaking her mind. What she spoke was widely regarded as opinion aimed at disrespecting the star and the fandom went crazy. The incident happened during the IFFK film festival last year and the actress was addressing an open forum which was on role & portrayal of women in the films
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