Intuition Study Circle- TISS Guwahati

26/11/2021

Wish you a happy constitutional day to you all. Let's build a nation bases on the principle of Liberty, equality, fraternity and Justice for all.

12/06/2020

11/06/2020

https://maktoobmedia.com/2020/06/10/14-year-old-christian-boy-murdered-by-hindu-group-in-odisha/?fbclid=IwAR2KxSTfSqZofk9UiNKV6u_ooRvV_ZjWVRmcMIzOP_7zroak5nwA7bzyp80

Sombura Madkami, a 14-year-old Christian boy, a member of converted Christian family was crushed to death with stone by a Hindutva group in Odisha's Malkangiri.

04/06/2020

Due to the Brahmanical hegemony, they have been ignored and also denied opportunities to access education in general and higher education in particular. Along with Brahmanical hegemony, Dalit women are dominated by Dalit men as well. Dalit men are not helping them to come out from male domination. Dalit women are very few in numbers, not only in higher education but also in every domain of society. Though the Dalit women are equally interested in pursuing education, they are forced not to pursue their dreams. The lower rate of participation and enrollment of Dalit women does not mean that they are not interested in education. But they are denied opportunities to access higher education. Dalit women come to universities through the experience of struggles and difficulties. Many of them are not able to reach to higher education because of structural reasons such as class, caste, gender, and patriarchy that creates hundreds of impediments for them to continue their dreams. by Saraswati Suna.

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9931%3Adalit-women-in-higher-education-in-odisha&catid=119%3Afeature&Itemid=132&fbclid=IwAR1aPyrwiOFUMlJUBcBB2jS1kArpHPSeO7aoR0L06fF840XaafqgQaYX2cg

22/05/2020

https://velivada.com/2020/05/21/a-few-main-ideas-from-rahul-sonpimples-talk-on-post-ambedkarite-leadership/?fbclid=IwAR0yXkBknVeN7-IsSmXQhUhLtwpdK3OahU2rItcmrSIsCnytHzBFGEqFr3s #.Xsalnx7mlwV.whatsapp

Summarized by Ravikant The talk handles two broad arcs: ‘Leadership’ theories and Indian traditions, and comments on the Dalit Movement and its Leadership History of Dalit movement and its leadersh…

06/05/2020

The Navayana perspective that was given by Babasaheb in his book “Buddha and His Dhamma” states three key words i. e. “Budhha, Dhamma, Sangha” as the methodological approach to understanding the truth. One could see the direct correlation between this approach and the quotation, i.e. “Educate, Agitate, Organize”. Buddha becomes the sign of knowledge in which a person, the knowledge seeker strives to educate him/herself. It prepares the background to create epistemological methods to see the truth. Educating oneself means the same. It has to create an environment for striving for knowledge. Dhamma stands as an epistemology to gain the truth, i.e. the ways, methods through which one could meet the truth. Agitation is none other than this. The movement agitates to get its rights, dignity and entitlements. ‘Sangha’ is the community, a sense of belongingness, a feeling of a commune. The organization is also the same as the philosophy and objectives of the Sangha. And the Navayana way of thinking recognizes the parallel processual aspect of these three terms. And the whole idea of enlightenment is constituted of these elements functioning together, where agitation with mind and with the outside world become a parallel process with constantly engaging with the knowledge building process to educate oneself and others. by Birendra Nag

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9870%3Aeducate-agitate-organize-is-it-a-sequence-or-a-parallel-process&catid=119&Itemid=132&fbclid=IwAR0rwKsXVzAkqtQ25Kh1YVJ-QejZfQBwPgRJ94vTMS94NmwkDJkJy0kxDp0

06/03/2020

I Rap not for myself but for my community by Sumeet Samos.

28/01/2020

Jai bhim
On this occasion of the 71st Republic Day 26th January, we the students of Institution Study Circle collectively read the preamble of Indian constitution and discussed regarding celebration of Republic Day and the importance of constitutional value for all of us. It is our privilege to read the preamble in a prestigious university like TISS. Reading constitution itself a revolutionary step by all of us. It is high time for all of us to save the constitution. Constitutional method is the only way to bring an ideal society. The ideal society, which would be based on the ideas of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice. A great salute and heartily thanks to the father of Indian constitution and father of modern India Dr. B.R .Ambedkar. I would like to thank each and everyone for their participation and making the discussion more effective and fruitful.



Babasaheb

28/11/2018

"I don't know how necessary and legitimate is it to show TISS's progressiveness inorder to resist the authoritative course cuts in various campuses. Even if people from different caste, different economies, different genders and different social locations enroll in TISS, but can they be counted in same page to prove how progressive and egalitarian TISS is? TISS is the same casteist, feudal, sexist space for us like all other progressive spaces are. We have been trolled, bullied, mocked for the way we look, for the clothes we wear, for the language we speak and for the politics we subscribe to. In TISS Guwahati, I remember, in the first year, we have to go through long debate, disagreements and struggle just to hold Ambedkar's photo in Rohith Vemula protest. If only we Bahujan people share something with the upper caste people i.e. same benches, we are never share any other spaces or events with them. In classrooms, of course they have hegemony; they have better vocabularies, better readings, better acquittance with pop-culture, and power to hegemonise over all the space. We never share their 'party spaces'. We cannot establish our politics independently, openly; we always work under the fear of further victimisation, subordination and exclusion. Oh! Forgot to mention, we share their 'revolution spaces', the spaces which are meant for their agitation, they need us. That is the only exclusive space to talk about inclusion.

TISS is as Brahminical as any other spaces. But does that mean I support 'shut down TISS', or 'shut down courses'? Never. Because that's the only space I could have my exposure to the outside world. That's the space where I and many of our Bahujan students challenge the upper caste hegemony in academia and their Brahminical idea of Merit. That's the only space, I could have, which brought my family some respectability we were fighting for. That's the space we desire everyday. We cannot ever think of closure of TISS, its courses and such spaces. But the argument that TISS is an egalitarian space just to oppose the shut down of courses is sh*tty."

- Snehashish Das, BASS batch 2015-2018 writes.

09/09/2018

It is not easy to resist against the various levels of structural hegemony that have been imposed upon us historically on the basis of various social constructed identities. We still remember that how Snehashish has been challenging them through their courageous efforts, debates, discuusions and protests. We have always seen them engaging themselves in socio-political issues. Being a Bahujan-q***r, they asserted against all the discriminatory forces that came on their way. We started claiming our resistance and struggle against Brahminical society through many discussions and debates in Guwahati. They have changed gradually from many school of thoughts and ideologies.

In a gender-binary society, people don't talk about q***rness,forget about assertion of identity. You courageously dressed up in q***r attire, where people don't want you to be. You dared to claim yourself as 'Bahujan-Queer' and asserted your identity. You have given us much more power, love & strength to continue our struggle & assertion.

And now Snehashish is there in JNU, contesting for the Councillor for SSS. People out there in JNU, please vote for them. Intuition-Study Circle would like to give strength, love and support for them.

Vote, Assert & Elect Snehashish💙
as Councillor for SSS, BAPSA

28/08/2018

Some pics from the workshop' Poetry & Human Rights'. Thanks everyone for joining us today.