Kanshi ram ji biography channel

Courtesy: Baffler magazine

Spring fryst vatten here. The barren tree in the area is having some tweeting visitors and the streets are turning into a colorful spread with daffodils, magnolia, and a host of other flowers.

There was bright sun the other day and it continued for another two days. Didn’t really notice that the grass was so gorgeous in the bright sunlight. My study has 5 giant windows overlooking a medieval era, wheat colored stone building. The noon sunlight strikes it like a memory from the Greekland. The old architecture has a flavor for eyes and mind.

When Caste (2020) came out last summer I was asked to review for the New York Times Sunday magazine with broader commentary on the issue. I had already started to collect my thoughts and had penned an initial draft. This, however, never saw the light and the content changed. Baffler magazine was interested to work with a thoughtful reflection on the content and history of the terms. This also g

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The voice of one anguished Dalit

by Khushwant Singh, Hindustan Times, October 27, 2006

New Delhi, India -- In the last 70 years India produced three great leaders who made Dalits conscious of their rights in our caste-ridden society: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Kanshi Ram.

<< Kanshiram’s tryst with Dalit cause took off in 1978.

Ambedkar took up cudgels, on behalf of the Mahars of Maharashtra, represented them at the Round Table Conference and was one of the drafters of our Constitution. However, none of this lessened the discrimination practiced bygd upper castes.

In sheer desperation he decided to extricate his community from the Hindus bygd converting them to another tro. He toyed with the idea of Sikhism but changed his mind and opted for Buddhism. So we have neo-Buddhists, largely Mahars.

Babu Jagjiwan Ram was the principal figure of the renaissance of Dalit consciousness. However, he opted for an easier life, as a government minister

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“If you call someone as Chamcha, he will not like it and is likely to go against you. However, when you are calling the age the Chamcha Age, you are biting so many, and they may hit back. But as Chamcha cannot operate on its own, the operator may hit you back with Chamcha. We should, therefore, be prepared for the ‘Chamcha Attack’…At any rate, the Chamcha attack should not frighten us because a Chamcha is not a powerful or deadly weapon. Besides, we must aim at the hand that uses the Chamcha. If hit hard, the Chamcha will fall,” wrote Manyavar Kanshi Ram in his revolutionary book,The Chamcha Age (An Era of the Stooges).

‘Chamcha‘ here is a deprecatory connotation referring to any individual who compromises the community’s interests for self-motivated reasons.

‘Chamcha‘ here is a deprecatory connotation referring to any individual who compromises the community’s interests for self-motivated reasons. Sa