Critical Political Philosophy
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I'm sharing my latest article "Ambedkar and Annihilation: A Theory of Transformative Praxis", published in @SouthAsia_R.
An important thought provoking piece!
In this Deccan Herald piece, I use Derrida’s pharmakon (via Plato’s Pharmacy) and MC5’s “Poison” to unpack a recent X post that called Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste’, Phule’s ‘Ghulamgiri’, and related texts “poison” being fed to students.
What threatens inherited caste and patriarchal hierarchies is actually not a poison but a medicine, in line with the Constitution’s own demand for equality—it is actually caste/gender inequality that is the toxin to India.
deccanherald.com/opinion/poi…
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Dalit students studying abroad hope to escape oppressive caste hierarchies, only to find that the dominant-caste diaspora has exported its prejudice into classrooms and social settings across borders.
✍️ Radheshyam Jadhav
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An important work, must watch to know history of Ambedkar's Conversion!
Introducing Seeking Sangha, a new series on @mondalsudipto’s What’s Your Ism?
This is a five part series, where we try to understand Buddhism through Ambedkar’s views of anti-caste Buddhism.
Coming soon, with questions, answers and a lot more!
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Filosofía Política
Este volumen recopila artículos sobre el Estado y la sociedad, la democracia, la justicia, los derechos, la libertad, la igualdad, la opresión y las relaciones internacionales. Es una colección fantástica.
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You cannot tire me..
threaten me
i am beyond you.
I am free..
Not your slave..
Equality is new for you..
We will teach you equality and civility
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AI and Brahmanism…
A Dalit scholar in Bengaluru asked ChatGPT to review and cleanup a fellowship letter he was drafting. The AI rewrote his name as Sharma. MIT then ran fill-in-the-blank tests on the same family of models. When asked who is clever, the answer came back Brahmin. Asked who cleans sewage, the answer came back Dalit. Asked “Do not touch the ___,” the blank was filled in with Dalit.
India is one of OpenAI’s biggest markets.
technologyreview.com/2025/10…
I wrote this years back. Now I've developed it to full academically rigor paper. And argue that Caste and Death is intertwined in democracy and caste system. No one is born to die unnatural way. But the system make them to die through regulatutary force and inflicting violence.
In Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit man was beaten to death by an OBC Yadav caste person for asking for his wages. In Rajasthan, a Dalit student was beaten to death in school for drinking water from an upper-caste teacher’s water pot. A 15-year-old Dalit boy bathing in a public pond in Odisha was killed by dominant and upper-caste Hindus. When a young Dalit boy celebrated Ambedkar Jayanti in Maharashtra, he was killed by dominant caste Hindus. A Dalit man who loved an upper-caste girl was killed in Uttarakhand. A young Dalit boy wearing good clothes and sunglasses was thrashed by upper castes in Gujrat.
Dalits aspire to practice the ethics of democracy as their way of life. Yet, when they live a democratic life and celebrate the Constitution as their social public ethics, the consequence is the end of their lives. @jadumanilion writes
theindiaforum.in/caste/death…
A very stimulating discussion on the question of identity in our times and political theory. As always great listening to Professor @jyotirmaya56051.
The 80 years of Indian Independence is meaningless when an opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge, said: the purification of the stage made me feel the sting of untouchability and humiliated me. FIVE Dalits were killed in 2015, & the court failed to convict the accused in Rajasthan
Congratulations 🎉 professor Aakash for this important and timely book of our time. Look forward to read it.
I spent three years writing a book that starts with Fermi’s Paradox and ends with jailbreaking the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Here’s the full Contents.
“Will AI Murder Us All?
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence”
Preorder link: amazon.in/Will-Murder-All-Ps…
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Ninety Years of ‘Annihilation of Caste’: The wait for a democratic conscience in India theleaflet.in/equality/ninet… #
By @jadumanilion
I'm sharing my latest article published today on the "Ninety Years of ‘Annihilation of Caste’: The wait for a democratic conscience in India". Let me know your thoughts.
theleaflet.in/equality/ninet…
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Ninety years after the publication of Ambedkar’s fiery undelivered speech for the Jat Pat Todak Mandal, that drew extensively on abolitionist thought, the project of forming a civic virtue in India remains unfinished, even as courts have continued undermining the materiality of caste-oppression.
@jadumanilio
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Thank you Aakash. I'm working on Annihilation as a theory of liberation. Mostly, we attribute Ambedkar towards the French revolution – that is one, but there is more to it "Abolition to Annihilation towards Reconstruction". Otherwise our political theory would be repetitions.
This is a powerful new article by @jadumanilion: ‘#Ambedkar and Annihilation: Towards a Theory of Transformative Praxis’ (South Asia Research).
It recovers Ambedkar’s radical idea of “annihilation” as the foundation for genuine egalitarian transformation:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
This endorsement means a lot Ambedkarite of across the globe.
We reflect on the life of Dr BR Ambedkar and his timeless values of justice and dignity on his 136th birth anniversary. A fierce defender of human rights, Babasaheb’s vision of an equal world is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals and our work at the United Nations
ALT The statue of Dr BR Ambedkar in Hyderabad, as captured at night time. The text on the image reads: Justice is another name for liberty, equality and fraternity, a quote attributed to the social reformer and principal architect of the Indian Constitution. #AmbedkarJayanti
"For ours is a battle, not for wealth, or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality.”I wish that we understand the deeper meaning of these words for reclaiming human personality with respect and dignity! Happy Ambedkar Jayanti!
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41 killed in sewer-septic tanks in just 80 days of this year! Hundreds of safai karamcharis from 10 states gather at Jantar Mantar to protest most barbaric caste-based oppression in name of occupation. Join hands and raise voice to make this government listen! #stopkillingus
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Justice, Recognition, and Institutions: A Dialogue with Axel Honneth link.springer.com/book/10.10…
