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Caste is not a relic of the past. It is a highly refined, institutionalized, and continuously updated system of discrimination that operates with greater sophistication than conventional racism in many parts of the world. In this sense, India has perfected a more enduring and deeply entrenched form of graded inequality that continues to shape social, economic, and political life long after many other nations have formally dismantled overt racial hierarchies.
This structural reality demands not denial, but rigorous constitutional intervention, Ambedkarite social reform, and uncompromising enforcement of laws like the SC/ST (PoA) Act to achieve genuine equality and dignity for all.
Ambedkarite scholarship, experience, and political practice are routinely treated as incomplete or “particular” until they are validated/framed by Savarna Marxist categories.
Ambedkarites are positioned as recipients of “scientific” theory rather than independent producers of knowledge.
Leadership structures, theoretical journals, and campus organisations have historically reproduced this hierarchy.
Neha Bora’s recent visibility within Left spaces is being read by many Ambedkarites as another instance of this pattern rather than a genuine shift.
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
बेहद शर्मनाक!
दलित बेटी ने कुश्ती में स्वर्ण पदक जीत कर इतिहास रचा लेकिन न किसी ने माला पहना कर स्वागत किया ना किसी ने ढोल ताशे बजाए क्यूँ की जीतने वाली बेटी दलित समाज से थी
हांसी के राजथल गांव की SC बेटी ने कुश्ती में गोल्ड जीता, लेकिन आरोप है कि जातिवादी सोच ने उसकी जीत का सम्मान तक नहीं किया!
हरियाणा में जातिवादी मानसिकता का यह जीताजागता उदाहरण है।
सलाम उस पिता को, जिसने अकेले बेटी की जीत का जश्न मनाया।
सुन लो आधुनिक द्रोणाचार्यों! अब एकलव्य अंगूठा नहीं देगा, वह तुम्हारे जातिवाद का घमंड तोड़ेगा! – at Delhi, India
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
Marriage is not between families, castes, or religions; it is between two consenting adults. When people marry within their clan, caste, or religion, they are celebrated. But when they cross these boundaries, particularly when a woman chooses a partner from another community, they often face fierce hostility.
When women marry outside their clan, caste, or religion, their marriages are celebrated by the man’s side as a conquest. This is dangerous to national integrity.
This is not confined to Hindus; it applies to Muslims as well. Opposition can be particularly hostile among upper-caste Hindus and Muslims. Several Dalits have been killed for marrying upper-caste Hindu or Muslim women.
Omar Abdullah himself reportedly did not celebrate his sister’s marriage to Hindu Sachin Pilot.
The institution of marriage, when governed by caste and religious boundaries, perpetuates hostility and violence in India. If it cannot be reformed to respect individual choice, perhaps it needs to be dismantled in its present form.
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
नेहा जी, आपका लाल सलाम रेड फ्लैग हैं !
@neha_aisa
Savarna-dominated communist parties in India, while claiming to pursue the dictatorship of the proletariat, have in practice constructed a Savarna dictatorship.
Their ideological lineage and generational hostility toward untouchable communities remain intact.
This hostility does not primarily take the form of physical attacks or overt atrocities like the normal Savarnas do. Instead, it operates by systematically dismissing Ambedkarites work, experience, and scholarship, and by reducing Ambedkarites to passive recipients of knowledge rather than producers of it. This is their enduring parampara.
Neha Bora’s qualification in this test fits that pattern. Their leadership may well be smiling inwardly at her success.
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
The researchers on caste are going to SC colonies to study caste.
Pagal.
Go to Brahmin and Savarna gated communities to study and understand caste.
There is no caste in SC colonies to study and understand. Caste is with Brahmin Savarnas
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Deepali (Dipali) Salve and Rahul Sonpimple are Ambedkarite activists leading protests and a broader campaign demanding justice in the case of Sahil Wakode
Who is Sahil Wakode?
Sahil Wakode was a second-year BTech student in the Energy Science and Engineering department at IIT Bombay. He was found dead by suicide in his hostel room on 18 September 2026. His parents alleged caste-based harassment and discrimination (particularly involving Professor Suryanarayana Doolla, and in some reports also involving another faculty member).
Police registered a case of abetment of suicide along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Mumbai Crime Branch is investigating. Activists and the family describe the death as an “institutional murder” linked to caste discrimination on campus. Protests, hunger strikes by the parents, and demands for an independent probe, accountability, and action against the accused professor have continued since then.
Who is Deepali Salve?
Ambedkarite activist and PhD scholar at the University of Mumbai.
Maharashtra General Secretary of the All India Independent Scheduled Castes Association (AIISCA).
Director of the Savitribai Phule Resource Centre (SRC).
Comes from Anand Nagar, a Dalit-dominated slum in Chembur, Mumbai. Her father is an auto-rickshaw driver and her mother works as a sanitation worker (associated with Stree Mukti Sanghatana).
She has been at the forefront of the protests for Sahil Wakode organizing and leading marches (including at IIT Bombay gates, Azad Maidan, and Chaityabhoomi), supporting the parents’ hunger strike, and publicly framing the case as caste-based institutional violence.
Mumbai Police have detained her or placed her under house arrest multiple times during these protests (including ahead of a candle march at Chaityabhoomi).
Who is Rahul Sonpimple?
Founder and National President of AIISCA.
Former leader associated with the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student Association (JNU).
Works closely with Deepali Salve. He has publicly narrated her background and their joint organizational work.
Actively involved in the same protests, hunger-strike support, meetings with politicians, and public statements demanding justice, an independent investigation, and action against alleged caste discrimination at IIT Bombay. He has also been detained during the protests.
Mumbaimirror
The movement they are leading
Through AIISCA they have organized and led the sustained public campaign for justice in Sahil Wakode’s case.
This includes:
Protests and marches at IIT Bombay, Azad Maidan, and Chaityabhoomi (a site of major significance for the Ambedkarite/Dalit community).
Support for the parents’ hunger strike.
Demands for a fair, independent, time-bound investigation; accountability of the accused professor(s) and the institute; and broader measures against caste discrimination in higher education institutions.
Framing the issue as systemic caste violence rather than an isolated suicide.
They are not mainstream political party leaders but independent Ambedkarite organizers focusing on Dalit/Scheduled Caste issues, education access for marginalized students, and anti-caste struggles.
Their role became particularly visible in the weeks after Sahil Wakode’s death as they coordinated ground-level mobilization, social-media outreach, and public pressure.
In short: Deepali Salve and Rahul Sonpimple are the key Ambedkarite faces currently driving the public movement seeking justice for Sahil Wakode and highlighting alleged caste discrimination at IIT Bombay.
Deepali (Dipali) Salve and Rahul Sonpimple are Ambedkarite activists leading protests and a broader campaign demanding justice in the case of Sahil Wakode
Who is Sahil Wakode?
Sahil Wakode was a second-year BTech student in the Energy Science and Engineering department at IIT Bombay. He was found dead by suicide in his hostel room on 18 September 2026. His parents alleged caste-based harassment and discrimination (particularly involving Professor Suryanarayana Doolla, and in some reports also involving another faculty member).
Police registered a case of abetment of suicide along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Mumbai Crime Branch is investigating. Activists and the family describe the death as an “institutional murder” linked to caste discrimination on campus. Protests, hunger strikes by the parents, and demands for an independent probe, accountability, and action against the accused professor have continued since then.
Who is Deepali Salve?
Ambedkarite activist and PhD scholar at the University of Mumbai.
Maharashtra General Secretary of the All India Independent Scheduled Castes Association (AIISCA).
Director of the Savitribai Phule Resource Centre (SRC).
Comes from Anand Nagar, a Dalit-dominated slum in Chembur, Mumbai. Her father is an auto-rickshaw driver and her mother works as a sanitation worker (associated with Stree Mukti Sanghatana).
She has been at the forefront of the protests for Sahil Wakode organizing and leading marches (including at IIT Bombay gates, Azad Maidan, and Chaityabhoomi), supporting the parents’ hunger strike, and publicly framing the case as caste-based institutional violence.
Mumbai Police have detained her or placed her under house arrest multiple times during these protests (including ahead of a candle march at Chaityabhoomi).
Who is Rahul Sonpimple?
Founder and National President of AIISCA.
Former leader associated with the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student Association (JNU).
Works closely with Deepali Salve. He has publicly narrated her background and their joint organizational work.
Actively involved in the same protests, hunger-strike support, meetings with politicians, and public statements demanding justice, an independent investigation, and action against alleged caste discrimination at IIT Bombay. He has also been detained during the protests.
Mumbaimirror
The movement they are leading
Through AIISCA they have organized and led the sustained public campaign for justice in Sahil Wakode’s case.
This includes:
Protests and marches at IIT Bombay, Azad Maidan, and Chaityabhoomi (a site of major significance for the Ambedkarite/Dalit community).
Support for the parents’ hunger strike.
Demands for a fair, independent, time-bound investigation; accountability of the accused professor(s) and the institute; and broader measures against caste discrimination in higher education institutions.
Framing the issue as systemic caste violence rather than an isolated suicide.
They are not mainstream political party leaders but independent Ambedkarite organizers focusing on Dalit/Scheduled Caste issues, education access for marginalized students, and anti-caste struggles.
Their role became particularly visible in the weeks after Sahil Wakode’s death as they coordinated ground-level mobilization, social-media outreach, and public pressure.
In short: Deepali Salve and Rahul Sonpimple are the key Ambedkarite faces currently driving the public movement seeking justice for Sahil Wakode and highlighting alleged caste discrimination at IIT Bombay.
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
JNU हर साल सवर्ण क्रांतिकारी पैदा करता है जो बाद में BJP-Congress के आगे झुक जाते हैं।
दलितों की जातिवाद के खिलाफ लड़ाई में न Left साथ आता है न Right, सिर्फ अम्बेडकरवादी ही लड़ते हैं।
RSS-BJP पृष्ठभूमि वाले ब्राह्मणवादी परिवार से आने वाली नेहा बोरा हमें एक्टिविज़्म न सिखाएं।
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
The audacity of privileged voices lecturing grassroots anti-caste movements on how, where, and when to struggle. Marginalized communities don’t need Savarna gatekeepers dictating the "correct" way to fight oppression.
@neha_aisa @deepali_writes
The audacity of privileged voices lecturing grassroots anti-caste movements on how, where, and when to struggle. Marginalized communities don’t need Savarna gatekeepers dictating the "correct" way to fight oppression.
@neha_aisa
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
Hey @neha_aisa
This is Adv Disha Wadekar. She’s Ambedkarite She’s Dalit
The UGC Regulations itself
came into being following a six-year long legal battle in the Supreme Court of India led by Adv Disha for a petition filed by Rohith and Payals mothers.
And you have the audacity to talk about Ambedkarites not protesting against UGC roll back?
Dalit and anti caste activist, and parties work harder and longer for justice and make substantial change in society . Look what Mayawati has achieved in Northen India, VBA has achieved in Maha. They are usually boycotted by media
Because they are not previlege Savarna like you.
Disha Wadekar would be a national icon if she was Disha Bora. @WadekarDisha
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
Oh Savarna Upper Caste Hindus will commit caste atrocities on Dalits across India but oppressor upper Caste youth activists will not outrage against the culprits & savarna communist parties wont march for Dalit justice but oppressed caste youths and parties must go to rescue the Dalit dead bodies? Are we getting it right?
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Discrediting Dalit voices and rendering Dalit struggles invisible are standard practices in Savarna left politics. Bora has been given a platform by Dipke, a Dalit boy. Savarna lefties have no shame when it comes to denying Dalits the credit they deserve and appropriating the contributions of those who have actually led the struggle. It would hardly be surprising if Bora were to claim tomorrow that she led the CJP movement, rather than Dipke!
Dr.B.Karthik Navayan retweeted
@neha_aisa You benefit from the system, yet you have the nerve to lecture those fighting it. Drop the savior act and check your privilege
#CastePolitics
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Days after police action against protesting students inside IITB, students put police brutality pics in Main building of IITB
I simply love IITB students for resistance in their relentless pursuit to seek accountability on Sahil’s death demanding Kedare and Dulla’s resignation and #JusticeForSahilWakode
Jaibhim