Caste system is the organized hierarchical social division of human beings in India. Ambedkar is one of the prominent social and political thinkers who criticized the evil practices of caste system and sought solutions for untouchables (lower caste people) to free from the hierarchical social system. In the scorching summer of 1936 May, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, printed 1500 copies of ‘Annihilation of Caste’ at a rate of 8 annas per copy, spending money form his own pocket. This book of 50 pages was the speech that he had prepared for an annual conference of Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, an an upper caste Hindu organisation.
B R Ambedkar was invited by Jat-Pat Todak Mandal to deliver the presidential address for their annual lecture in 1936. Dr Ambedkar prepared the speech and sent a copy of the same to the Mandal in advance. However, after reviewing the address, they replied back to Ambedkar requesting him to amend certain portions particularly, his sharp criticism of Hinduism, caste system and the burning of Manusmriti - the Hindu law book. Ambedkar, taken aback by their response, declared that he would not alter a comma or allow any censorship over his address refused to comply with their demands. When they refused, Dr. Ambedkar requested the Reception Committee of the Mandal to cancel his presidential address instead of repeated postponement of the conference forever. Later, in the same year, Ambedkar published the same undelivered speech as a book titled "Annihilation of Caste". |
Suspicion is a synonym for the divine.
It is a compact disc. Even the trumpet sound which awakes everyone has waves of suspicion. Love outcasts its binary equations of gender when a couple question each other, ‘are you really a man?’ or ‘are you truly a woman?’ or ‘to what degree are you concealing the transgender in you?’ Love dances away in a trance of suspicion that human being is not solely a man or a woman. Every land should have its own temples of suspicion. It should have growing queues of pleasant faced people who doubts the state and religion. The ones who were thrown out on the basis of suspicion should reply with suspicion itself. For a moment think about the sheen of a digital library wherein all those things which were banned in the light of suspicion are archived. This is a compact disc borrowed from one such library of suspicion. The files burned in the disc are as follows:
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Words in a poem usually denote images, events, objects or phenomena of human and nonhuman dimensions. This installation portrays the idea of poetry by using more-than-textual signs of expression.
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‘Anti- a user guide’ is a collaborative book project published in solidarity with thousands of university students across India who fight against the hindutwa imagination of nation state.