Mumbai, In an embarrassing bloomer, the Maharashtra government has dropped the mention of anniversaries of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, democrat reformist Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj, social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and B.R. Ambedkar from the 2019 calendar. The calendar, distributed to all departments in Mantralaya and all government offices and organisations across[Read More…]
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Saffron statue of Ambedkar installed in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday installed a statue of Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar in a Budaun village painted saffron, unlike the usual blue. The statue of the architect of the Indian Constitution in Dugraiyya village, which was vandalised some time back, was replaced with this new one. The[Read More…]
Dalits are replying to attacks, says Minister
Union Minister of State Ramdas Athawale on Thursday said Dalits were replying to attacks on them. “You attack, we reply. You attack, we reply,” Athawale, the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, said at a seminar at Osmania University here. He was referring to the recent attack on[Read More…]
Political Circus: Should BJP worry about growing Dalit alienation?
For the third time since the Narendra Modi government’s assumption of office, the Dalits have come into conflict with the Hindutva brigade. The first time was in Una in Gujarat, where a group of Dalits were thrashed by saffron activists for skinning a cow, a traditional occupation of the “untouchables”.[Read More…]
India’s Moment of Slaughter
What is happening in the country today is one question that goes back to the creation of a strong, Hindu Rashtra post the 1947 moment of violence that erupted on the border of India and Pakistan. Evidently, the “pain and struggle” for carving a monolithic Brahmanical, pure entity out of[Read More…]
Declare Ambedkar’s anniversaries as dry days: Shiv Sena
The senior leaders in Shiv Sena demanded that April 14 and December 6 be declared dry days in Maharashtra, months after resuming power in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The demand was made to mark respect to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. April 14 is Ambedkar’s birth anniversary while December 6 is[Read More…]
UGC cuts funding for social discrimination research
Prakash Ambedkar dares government to disregard reservations
Prakash Ambedkar, who heads Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) on Sunday dared the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to do away with the reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The grandson of architect of the Indian Constitution alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is trying to create class divisions in[Read More…]