Kavan, an Ambedkarite opera that will premiere at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai on February 8 and 9, is an exercise in testing ...

An activist of the street he is best known as one of the founding members of the revolutionary anti-caste movement, Dalit Panthers, in Maharashtra. A literary giant, with over 40 books published ...

In India in the 1970s, the Dalit Panthers Movement, which challenged caste discrimination, published pocket-sized magazines to share anti-caste work — a defiant break away from the upper caste ...

Tracing the origins of Dalit autobiography in the writings of Siddharth College and Milind College students in the 1950s, protest writers in the 1960s, and the Dalit Panthers and their followers in ...

“But we can never forget Bhagwat dada. He was the first martyr of the Dalit Panthers,” he said. Built on the ideals of the Black Panthers, the Dalit Panthers were forged in 1972, as a response ...

Raje Dhale, writer-activist, artist, co-founder of Dalit Panthers and a relative of Bhise’s, also stayed there. Dhale inspired Bhise to take up art studies first at the Raheja School of Art and ...

The coalition led by the DMK includes the Congress, the Left parties, the Indian Union Muslim League and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, formerly known as the Dalit Panthers’ party.