Sulochanabai Dongre: Dalit Feminist Who Advocated For Birth Control And Women’s Education
With conversations around safe abortion rights and the pro-choice movement at its peak, one must not forget the...
Jyoti Lanjewar : A Marathi Dalit writer and Feminist
Jyoti Lanjewar, a Marathi Dalit writer and activist, has a silent presence in the literary historical landscape. While...
Shantabai Dhanaji Dani: Dalit Woman Leader Who Fought Against Caste
Shantabai Dhanaji Dani’s life was intricately woven into the Ambedkarite movement. She was one of the best known...
Dr. Ambedkar As A Human Rights Defender
Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed on December 10th, 1948 and a majority of nations including the so-called...
Broken Men, The Pre-Untouchables – Dr Ambedkar
There was a time when the ancestors of the present day Untouchables were not Untouchables vis-a-vis the villagers...
Ambedkar was influenced by Kabir’s ‘Nirgunvad’ ideology
There are many similarities between Ambedkar and Kabir. Both were staunch opponents of Brahmanism and both opened the...
Enlightened Economics: Ambedkar’s Economic Thought and India’s Liberalised Economy
If we had people like him at the helm of economic affairs, the 250,000-plus farmer suicides in the...
Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar: An Empathetic Economist
As he proposed laws for an India in the making, the plight of the landless and the working...
Dr Ambedkar and the other Depressed classes
Babasaheb Ambedkar considered three great souls his ‘gurus’: Mahatma Buddha, Mahatma Kabir and Mahatma Phule. None of them...
The epistemological bases of Ambedkar’s Navayana
On 6 October 1956, barely two months before his death, in a hotel in Nagpur, Dr B.R. Ambedkar...