May 1, 2022#MayDay: Ambedkar and The Anti-Khoti Movementby Kushal Choudhary The clash between Ambedkar and communist mobilisation over-shadows the immense socio-political role of Babasaheb Ambedkar. Several narratives pitch him as a staunch leader who was vehemently opposed to communists through much of his life, while he organised the Dalit workers in industries to demand for rights and…Labor5 min readLabor5 min read
Apr 27, 2022Caste Forces People To Migrate. These Stories Are Proof.This article was originally published on Youth Ki Awaaz on May 5, 2022, here. It has been written by Disha Devadas. DHM thanks Youth Ki Awaaz and Disha Devadas for republishing permissions. Almost half of India’s population are migrants, meaning that about 600 million Indians live in a place other…Caste5 min readCaste5 min read
Apr 26, 2022Transgender People and Employment: An Interview with Swetha Sudhakarby DHM Editorial Team and Trans Rights Now Collective Note to readers: This post was to be released on April 15, 2022 to commemorate Transgender’s Day, but due to unavoidable delays we are publishing this on later date. This interview was originally conducted in Tamil and has been translated and…Transgender10 min readTransgender10 min read
Apr 21, 2022Those Who Till the Land Own the Land: Dalit Resistance in Biharby Kushal Choudhary Bodh Gaya, the land of Buddha’s enlightenment in the state of Bihar, is said to still keep alive the Bodhi tree. The Bodhi tree, a spiritual marker under which it is said that the Buddha attained enlightenment. However for over 400 years, the land and villages around…Land12 min readLand12 min read
Apr 20, 2022What Makes a House a Home: Caste and Segregation in India’s Citiesby Evita Das Dear Savarna readers, This piece will make you uncomfortable. At this point, you might have already started thinking that there is so much negativity at the beginning itself. Well, this negativity is born of your prejudice. Have you tried to wonder about the reason behind the negativity? …Caste8 min readCaste8 min read
Apr 19, 2022R.B.More —Stressing the importance of Anti-Caste Work within Communist movementsby Shaheen Abulla R.B. More (pronounced Mor-eh) “Among the few people whose efforts led me to enter political life, one is R B More!” Champion of Dalit cause, B.R. Ambedkar declared in a public meeting in Mumbai, pointing to a lean man in the crowd (1). The words of Ambedkar…Dalit5 min readDalit5 min read
Apr 17, 2022Counterculture: Seeing Connections Between Ambedkar and His Peopleby Atul Anand *All photography credit: Atul Anand I feel deeply connected to issues of migration and work. Being an itinerant migrant from Bihar, I have moved from one city to another for education and work most of my life. Having a master’s degree in media from a well-known institution…Dalit8 min readDalit8 min read
Apr 16, 2022The Namashudras of Bengal: ‘The Malakars’ — A personal story of my grandparents and their journeyby Megha Malakar I was born to a Dalit father and am the second girl child of the family who has always identified as a Namashudra. My father- Abhijit Kumar Malakar was born in the village Kamdebkati in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. However, this story is that…Dalit History Month5 min readDalit History Month5 min read
Apr 13, 2022Ambedkar and the Bombay Textile Workersby Kari Kumar The end of the 19th century brought large-scale industrial work to the subcontinent. In the Bombay Province, work was in the new textile mills that produced cotton cloth. The British had found that exporting cloth as opposed to cotton gave them a competitive edge over American slave-labor…Dalit7 min readDalit7 min read
Apr 13, 2022Dalit Life at the Limits of the Human: A Reading of Manjule’s Vaikunthby Soumya Rachel Shailendra At the peak of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Danish Siddiqui’s aerial photo of the cremation sites in New Delhi informed the world of the social tragedy unfolding in India. Besides the heaps of ash, timber, and smoke, one can identify the shadowy outlines…Dalit4 min readDalit4 min read
