Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Radhika Vemula

Real stakes and villains in Muslim League building a home for Rohith’s family

A great moment in the history of Dalit and Muslim relations has suffered another serious setback.

I’m Sending My Kids to Parliament Where They Will Question You And Haunt You.” Radhika Vemula’s Speech on Rohith Shahadath Din

Targeting the BJP government at the Centre, Radhika  Vemula said Dalits and Muslims must vote together against the BJP in the elections. "At Bhima Koregaon, I saw the political mobilization of Dalits in thousands. Seeing the huge Dalit gathering, people in the RSS were scared and created disturbance 10km away," she said. 

If You are Divided there is No Hope for Us: Radhika Vemula

I come here today to speak to you as an Ambedkarite and not as a communist. But at the same time I want to say that being an Ambedkarite itself means that we follow the communist principle of fighting against inequality.

Radhika Vemula combats caste system and brahmanical patriarchy

The brazen forms of casteism and misogyny inflicted on Radhika Vemula till date, Rohith's caste identity being "decided" in this brahmanical patriarchal society as coming from his biological father and not the struggling mother who raised him, the way in which she has been constantly absused and harassed by the government officials in the name of an "enquiry", reflect how caste and gender interplay thereby, reproducing the hierarchies of "purity" and "pollution" on a woman's body.