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1const e=[{title:"Ambedkar Jeyanthi in Tamil Nadu",slug:"ambedkar-jeyanthi-in-tamil-nadu",author:"Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran",bio:"Karthikeyan Damodaran is an Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Hugo Gorringe is a Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.",excerpt:"As in many places across the world, April 14th in Tamil Nadu sees political parties, institutions and individuals gathering round representations of Ambedkar to pay homage. Statues are garlanded and bathed in milk, portraits are adorned with flowers, speeches are made and celebrations held. In Dalit settlements, loud-speakers play Ambedkarite songs and community events are organised. Ambedkar Jeyanthi, in these respects, is similar across the country and illustrates Ambedkar’s pan-Indian significance.",image:"/images/ambedkar-jeyanthi-tamil-nadu.jpg"},{title:"A Statue in the Basement: Politics of Symbolic Containment in India's Elite Institutions",slug:"statue-in-the-basement-politics-of-symbolic-containment",author:"Arunya Sakthi",bio:"Arunya Sakthi is currently a first-year undergraduate student pursuing Honours in 

1Economics with a Political Science Minor at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. A polyglot poet with abiding interests and pursuits in world literature, economic policy, social justice, caste politics and administration, her writing sits at the intersection of lived experience and political thought. She aspires to embody a vision of Babasaheb wherever she goes.",excerpt:"I learnt about the basement the way most truths about caste are learnt, not headlong, but through the slow, sickening clarity of details. The kind that you realise when you observe closely and the awareness clicks. When Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s statue was installed at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, the news travelled through the Ambedkarite circles as a victory. A statue in an IIT. It felt, for a moment, like a threshold had been crossed. I was stunned when I heard about it from a friend. And then came the detail that unmade the celebration: the statue was in the basement.",image:"/images/statue-in-basement.jpg"},{title:"Jayanti, Leisure and the Antilibrary",slug:"jayanti-leisure-and-the-antilibrary",author:"Apurv Tagade",bio:"Apurv Tagade is an Ambedkarite from Nagpur.",excerpt:"I find books to be the most interesting feature of Babasaheb’s iconography. Everyone is familiar with his statues carrying a book, the Constitution of India, in his hands of which he was the chief architect. A more recent development would be the fusion of the book into the architecture of buildings associated with him. The Dr Ambedkar National Memorial inaugurated in New Delhi in 2018 is a massive structure designed to look like an open book, to highlight his role in drafting the Constitution.",image:"/images/jayanti-leisure-antilibrary.jpg"},{title:"Cultural in Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Dalits",slug:"cultural-in-dr-babasaheb-ambedkar-and-dalits",author:"Upendra Sonpimple",bio:"Upendra Sonpimple is a Phd candidate in sociology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.",excerpt:"Dalits have understood that their problems cannot become the problem of the upper caste, and therefore, stigma, violence and empowerment are a responsibility of Dalits themselves. In contemporary Maharashtra, the Hindu orthodoxy and Brahminism have become a deceptive phenomenon to sabotage the protest and mobility of Dalits. Dalits need Ambedkar more than ever, and without him, change is unimaginable. If that purpose remains important to Dalits, they should accept Ambedkar as someone who can take them out of the circle of oppression as a cultural, political, and socio-economic singularity.",image:"/images/cultural-ambedkar-dalits.jpg"},{title:"A Siege against the Siege What Babasaheb Ambedkar Teaches us on Strike",slug:"siege-against-the-siege-what-babasaheb-teaches-us-on-strike",author:"Brahma Prakash",bio:"Brahma Prakash is an Indian cultural theorist, writer and academician who teaches theatre and performance studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He writes on art, culture and politics.",excerpt:"Str

1ike as a term is common to the workers but is rarely discussed in relation to caste, despite the fact that caste and labour are so connected and the connection is striking. You tell me your caste, and I can tell you what kinds of work you do. Caste works as occupation with religious sanctions. Thus, strike in caste society is also a critique of religion.",image:"/images/siege-against-the-siege.jpg"},{title:"Bhim Jayanthi in Siddharth Colony",slug:"bhim-jayanthi-in-siddharth-colony",author:"Prajakta Kedare ",bio:"Prajakta Kedare is an artist / illustrator based in Chembur, Mumbai whose work is grounded in Ambedkarite politics and lived realities. Through her art, she documents the ongoing struggles of marginalized communities to re-claim space, voice, and power. Influenced by the ideas of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, her work functions as both resistance and a tool for building new platforms of representation and revolution.",excerpt:"In this so-called ghetto, the happiness in the brightness of our celebration unmakes the dirt associated with that word and its meaning is transformed in blue and white – as if colours and lights are indistinguishable in the DJ that plays the bass so loud to Anand Shinde. The singularity of people is derived from our coming together. The organization of Bhim Jayanti reflects grassroot democracy in action. ",image:"/images/bhim-jayanthi-siddharth-colony.jpg"},{title:"Light in Darkness: Bhim Jayanti in Gautam Nagar...",slug:"light-in-darkness-bhim-jayanti-in-gautam-nagar",author:"Sadhana Pawar",bio:"Sadhana Pawar is an HR professional based in Mulund, Mumbai, and a proud product of the BSP movement. A dedicated karyakarta in the Ambedkarite movement, she is committed to the ideals of equality, social justice, and empowerment inspired by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.",excerpt:"I live in Gautam Nagar, Dumping Road in Mulund. An area with mostly Buddhist families from across rural Maharashtra and have been living in Mumbai for the last many generations. The contradiction of the peace that Gautam Buddha evokes and the excess waste at the edge of the city that the Dumping Ground is, doesn’t hit anymore – especially when directing a rickshaw for home. The everyday here is punctuated by crisis and early-age deaths by addictions, who are left without any facilities to rehabilitate.",image:"/images/light-in-darkness-gautam-nagar.jpg"},{title:"Notes on Two Anti-Caste Events in Pune and Bengaluru",slug:"notes-on-two-anti-caste-events-in-pune-and-bengaluru",author:"Shripad Sinnakaar",bio:"Shripad Sinnakaar is a poet from Bombay",excerpt:"There were many anti-caste events I was part of this year, organised by various groups of people, but I want to recount two events here.",image:"/images/notes-anti-caste-events.jpg"},{title:"Bhim Jayanti: Nachna ki Vachna?",slug:"bhim-jayanti-nachna-ki-vachna",author:"Deepali Salve",bio:"Deepali Salve is an Ambedkarite Activist, PhD scholar, General Secretary of All India Independent Scheduled Castes Association (AIISCA) & Director of Savitribai Phule Resource Centre (SRC)",excerpt:"For the past few years, a debate keeps recurring annually every April 14th in the Ambedkar circles I am part of: Should BHIM Jayanti (birth anniversary) be celebrated through dancing, or through reading?",image:"/images/bhim-jayanti-nachna-ki-vachna.jpg"},{title:"From the Street to the Screen: Struggle for Visibility, Legitimacy and Spatial Justice",slug:"from-the-street-to-the-screen-struggle-for-spatial-justice",author:"Abhijay Rambabu",bio:"Abhijay Rambabu is a sociologist with a keen focus on digital, urban and environmental sociology. He researches and writes upon these topics, in addition to his academic interests in feminism, culture, gender and caste. He is currently at the University of Hyderabad.",excerpt:"Every year, Ambedkar Jayanti transforms streets across India into sites of celebration and assertion. Processions, music, portraits, banners and slogans mark not just commemoration, but also the access into historically denied spaces for Dalits.",image:"/images/street-to-screen-spatial-justice.jpg"},{title:"“We are at the Parliament Street!”: From Liminality to Centrality via Insurgent Constitutionalism",slug:"we-are-at-parliament-street-from-liminality-to-centrality",author:"Shubham Yadav",bio:"Shubham Yadav is a Senior Research Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University.",excerpt:"On the occasion of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, i.e., 14th April every year, a large number of processions, fairs, celebratory gatherings, and commemorations are organised country-wide.",image:"/images/parliament-street-insurgent-constitutionalism.jpg"},{title:"From Prohibition to Presence: Ambedkar, Public Space, and Counter-Memory",slug:"from-prohibition-to-presence",author:"Sheel Ratn",bio:"",excerpt:"It’s been 90 years since Babasaheb Ambedkar wrote in Annihilation of Caste, “turn in any direction you like, caste is the monster that crosses your path”. This observation reveals deeply violent and dehumanising ways in which public space in Indian society has been organised.",image:"/images/from-prohibition-to-presence.jpg"}]

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