Recent years have seen the rise of voices rooted in anti-caste resistance, but they refuse to be bracketed as ‘Dalit art’ ...
Slip-ups such as the one by Amit Shah in Parliament expose the fragile facade of Hindutva followers' claimed reverence for ...
Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, both shaped by their unique cultural sensibilities, offered contrasting paths of ...
Moreover, other faiths like Buddhism, shamanism, Kirantism and ... For this, we must build a strong and independent Dalit ...
His decision highlighted the potential of religious movements to serve ... Ambedkar, born into a Dalit family, experienced firsthand the dehumanizing effects of the caste system. His decision to ...
Kejriwal positions himself as a heroic individual battling a corrupt system. Elected officials are just distractions and a ...
But a poor Dalit ... he took to Buddhism. Later, Dinakaran would teach the young Kapilan the lessons of Babasaheb Ambedkar and Ayyankali, a prominent leader of the enlightenment movement in ...
He also inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement through his approach and founded the Buddhist society. Ever since his school days, Babasaheb himself suffered from untouchability. He was not allowed ...
It is not surprising, therefore, that Fatima Shaikh, a woman belonging to the backward caste weaving community and a Muslim too, has been unremembered for years. In fact, it is only the interest in ...
to the formation of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, inspired by the Black Panther movement in the United States, and the mass conversion of Dalits to Navayana Buddhism in 1956, Dalit activism in India ...
Bringing reference of Dalit icon Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, an Indian freedom fighter who inspired Dalit Buddhist movement, Bhattarai said that Dalits should dare to renounce the religion if the defenders ...