The Bhim Weekly

01/10/2020

देश की सबसे बड़ी विपक्षी पार्टी को क्या बलात्कार पीड़िता के परिवार से न मिलने देना ठीक है? क्या राहुल गांधी के साथ धक्का मुक्की करना उचित है?

28/09/2020

Devji Maheshwari was a senior member of the Indian Legal Professionals Association and the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation.

26/09/2020

Join P. R. Akhilesh(Mentor-The Bhim Weekly) with Bezwada Wilson, Raees Muhammad, Bhasha Singh and in a Workshop on understanding Manual Scavenging in India.

24/09/2020

Post Courtesy- Pragya Akhilesh.

One of the plays that we have adopted from staged theatre to applied theatre is Andher Nagri by Bhartendu Harishchandra, first published in 1881. This was the 1st one in our tribute edition back in 2013.

“बहुत समय पहले की बात है। कोशी नदी के किनारे एक संत अपने शिष्य के साथ कुटिया बनाकर रहते थे। दोनों का ज्यादातर समय भजन-कीर्तन, ईश्वर की आराधना तथा पहलवानी में व्यतीत होता था।

एक बार दोनों ने देश भ्रमण का निश्चय किया। गुरु-शिष्य घूमते-घूमते एक अजनबी देश में जा पहुंचे। वहां एक बगीचे में कुटिया बनाकर उन्होंने अपना डेरा डाला। गुरु ने शिष्य को एक रुपया देकर बाजार से कोई अच्छी सी सब्जी लाने को कहा।”

Bhartendu Harishchandra, Girdhar Das is known for Hindi theatre. He is the greatest Hindi writer of modern India.

23/09/2020

केंद्रीय रेल राज्य मंत्री सुरेश अंगड़ी का निधन,कुछ दिन पहले कोरोना संक्रमित थे, 65 साल की उम्र में ली अंतिम सांस...

18/09/2020

पिछले 24 घण्टों में कोरोना के 96,424 नए मामले सामने आए हैं,भारत मे कोरोना के मरीजों की संख्या 50 लाख पहुँच चुकी है।

17/09/2020

किसानों के विरोध प्रदर्शन और केंद्रीय मंत्री हरसिमरत कौर बादल के इस्तीफे के बीच लोकसभा में पास हुआ किसानों से जुड़ा बिल,अब बड़ा सवाल ये है कि क्या एनडीए से अलग होगा शिरोमणि अकाली दल?

17/09/2020

केंद्रीय मंत्री हरसिमरत कौर का केंद्र सरकार से इस्तीफा, कृषि विधेयक बिल के विरोध में इस्तीफा दिया गया है।

05/09/2020

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05/09/2020

Join us On This Historical Campaign...

TODAY: LIVE Protest Poetry Reading and Open Mic
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Listen to eminent poets and theatre artists Dr. Nam Dev, Dr. Suraj Badtiya, Dr. Neelam, Dr. Hemlata, Dr. Lokesh Jain, Indu Prakash Singh, Jayant Danish Chhibber, Aishwarya Singh, Asad Shaikh, Pragya Akhilesh and many more!

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September 5, 7:30-9 PM through Lok Theatre Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes Sanjeev Kumar Danda Ena Zafar Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch - DASAM / दलित आदिवासी शक्ति अधिकार मंच NAPM - National Alliance of People's Movements

22/08/2020

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Ravish Kumar, one of five recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for this year, delivers his lecture on the “Power of Citizen’s Journalism to Advance Democracy”. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Politics क्या मध्यम वर्ग ने सांप्रदायिकता को...

06/08/2020

On Wednesday, images and renderings of the Grand Ram Temple — which will be built on the the site of the Babri Masjid, an important mosque in Uttar Pradesh state demolished by right-wing Hindu nationalists— will be beamed across giant billboards in Times Square by a U.S. organization to mark the groundbreaking ceremony for the temple’s construction, which will feature Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying silver bricks as the foundation writes Rana Ayyub for The Washington Post.

Aug. 5 will become another infamous date for Muslims in India.

01/08/2020

Before any social imagination can become hegemonic, two conjoined aspects must establish themselves in society. The primary precondition for hegemony is a social power which is inextricably intertwined with moral universality. Social power is required to fulfil material needs that can enable social and economic mobility and redistribute resources, and to control positions of decision-making. But to sustain this control social power also needs to emerge as a morally potent force that appeals to the majority while undermining all contesting social imaginations.

Hindutva politics is essentially a rebooted and modernised version of Brahmanism. It projects itself as a de-Brahmanised Hinduisation process in which a large number of caste groups are being provided representation, while actually restoring the existing social inequalities. Hindutva is presenting an inclusive identity of being Hindu even if in concrete terms it provides only graded inclusion and not necessarily equality. Samrasta, as the RSS argues, means social co-habitation without equality. As the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said, we need a “harmonious debate” on reservations, which he essentially said would help maintain “unity” and “brotherhood” among Hindus, writes Ajay Gudavarthy, NewsClick

To build larger solidarities, today’s Bahujanism must distinguish irreconcilable conflicts from mere differences.

01/08/2020

Anand Teltumbde is a man of many shades. A senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management who identifies as a Marxist, Teltumbde has multiple qualifications: a degree in engineering from Nagpur’s Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, a management degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and a doctorate in cybernetics from the University of Mumbai.

But his public persona is that of a Dalit writer and intellectual, and a long-time activist concerned with Dalit and civil-liberties issues. In his long-running column for the Economic and Political Weekly, Teltumbde has often been critical of India’s existing Dalit leadership. He recently turned seventy in a Mumbai prison, having been taken into police custody three months earlier under preposterous terrorism-related charges filed by the National Investigation Agency -Kunal Chattopadhyay, Jacobin Magazine

The Indian state has imprisoned the Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde on trumped-up charges of terrorism and subversion. His activism and writing on caste and class are needed more than ever in the struggle against both casteism and capitalism.

31/07/2020

The body of a Dalit (formerly referred to as "untouchables") woman was taken off a funeral pyre in India by a group of men belonging to more privileged castes who said she could not be cremated on communal land, police said on Tuesday, a case that prompted angry calls for an end to caste discrimination.

The funeral was being held in northern Uttar Pradesh state's Agra district last week when about 200 men stopped the cremation, saying the site was not meant for villagers from less privileged castes, police and the woman's husband said -Reuters News Agency, AlJazeera

Anger at caste discrimination flares after a group of men in Agra prevents the woman's cremation on communal land.

31/07/2020

On July 28, the National Investigative Agency announced the latest in its string of arrests in the Bhima Koregaon case: the arrest of Professor Hany Babu. Babu is an associate professor teaching linguistics at the Department of English at Delhi University, and a known anti-caste activist.

The Bhima Koregaon case relates to the clashes that erupted after bicentennial celebrations of the Battle of Koregaon in Maharashtra on December 31, 2017. The battle, where a small contingent of Mahars defeated a massive Peshwa army, is an important part of Dalit history, though it receives pushback from upper caste and right-wing groups.

Several activists have already been controversially arrested in the case and accused of having ties to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). The accused include Varavara Rao, Rona Wilson, Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha and Sudha Bharadwaj -Kanwaraj Singh Sidhu, Newslaundry

The Delhi University professor’s wife Jenny Rowena said that legal recourse is the family’s way ahead.