Dr. Ambedkar in one of his speech remarked about the importance of Mahatma Phule’s thoughts & quotes, “Let others go where they will we will follow the path of Jyotiba Phule we may or may not take Marx with us but we will certainly not abandon Jotiba’s Philosophy”. Mahatma Jyotirao Phule also called the…
Politics of Education: Neeraj Bunkar
This piece of paper is an attempt to highlight the political act done by NGOs and other institutions in education. It will also emphasize the role of some NGOs in making educational institutions privatize. Sometimes NGO works as an agent of private agencies to fulfill hidden interest. I will discuss here the nature of the…
The Politics of Knowledge: Ram Gaikwad
The crisis of knowledge or more institutional meaning ‘educations’ has appeared from history to present context all over the world. The dominant western knowledge has been considered the ‘universal’ know where the knowledge from the southern region of the world become ‘local’. The intensity of this discriminatory attitude felt Indian scholars more acute than other…
DTSA Reflections-One & Half Years After: Mrugandha
I have been a student of DTSA for last three semesters. Social work is a new stream of academic study for me. In past I have been a science student and then a media student. While journalism did give me some insight of how I look at the society, it did not give me a…
Reflections on Pedagogy at Nalanda: Asmita Rajmala
Pedagogy plays a vital role in any curriculum. It is the dynamic relation build upon surrounding, teaching, learning and the methods. Nalanda is a social Institution based at Wardha, Maharashtra. It is a multi-disciplinary institution striving for socially, economically, educationally deprived students. It aspires to get students into national as well as international universities along…
People’s Manifesto 2019- A Civil Society Initiative: Neeraj Bunkar
In this discussion, I will brief about the active role of NGOs in order to reach out at the mass level and bring issues to the government. Recently, I have attended a collective meeting of different grass root organizations for the discussion over various issues that people of our country is facing. This meeting was…
DTSA Reflections-One & Half Years After: Umesh W
The main thing DTSA gives you another perspectives of caste and realites in contemporary times in India. The course teaches ontological and epistemological perspectives in the context of Dalit and Tribals. The course helps to understand the internal and external realities of society. The course helps to marginalised students as well as others to works…
DTSA Reflections-One & Half Years After: Satish M
One and half year experience in DTSA is a good journey if I look at it from a learning perspective. As I’m coming from a small village, studying in a metro city is little difficult, but only due to Dtsa it became somehow easier to survive in a premiere institute. In social work we all…
DTSA Reflections-One & Half Years After: Daisy K
As a student of Dalit and Tribal Studies and Actions, I believe that knowledge has started its initials to grow within me from its roots. Looking back to the days when I had heard about the course name and knew nothing about it but only ponder about thinking that, how interesting it would be to…
DTSA Refelctions-One & Half Years After: Arkja K
This one and a half year of Dalit and Tribal studies and Action has been extremely enriching and life changing for me. I am so glad that I enrolled for the course and am aware that with each passing day I am nearing the completion of my MA in DTSA. Through an intensive course curriculum,…
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