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Political ideology loses its meaning erstwhile societal and economical inequalities stay unaddressed, taste thinker, student and writer Shivsundar said connected Saturday.
Delivering a peculiar lecture astatine Kannada University, Hampi, helium observed that the emergence of property cults successful authorities encourages authoritarian tendencies and weakens antiauthoritarian foundations.
The programme was organised by the Centre for Dalit Cultural Studies of Kannada University to people 69th Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
“Dr. Ambedkar’s property was multi-dimensional and cannot beryllium confined to immoderate azygous viewpoint. After Ambedkar’s passing, his ideas were systematically sidelined and technological reasoning was suppressed by ascendant ideological forces, helium said. It was lone successful the 1990s, with the emergence of a conscious Dalit movement, that Ambedkar returned to the centre of socio-political discourse,” helium noted.
Dr. Ambedkar highlighted Buddhism’s foundational rule of “Bahujana hitaya, Bahujana sukhaya” (for the payment and happiness of the many), Mr. Shivsundar said, adding that religions contiguous indispensable beryllium re-imagined astir this humane ethic. “Caste structures and capitalist systems unneurotic perpetuate societal and economical inequalities, weakening antiauthoritarian values and reducing electoral ideology to a specified symbolic exercise. This increasing imbalance is pushing radical into insecurity and helplessness,” helium said.
Presiding implicit the event, Vice-Chancellor D.V. Paramashivamurthy said that governmental parties contiguous seldom addressed deeper societal needs, focusing alternatively connected power-sharing. “This drift has stalled developmental progress. If Dr. Ambedkar’s ideas are internalised successful nationalist life, nine tin determination towards a much conscionable and equitable future,” helium added.
Director of the Centre for Dalit Cultural Studies Chinnaswamy Sosale expressed interest that the humane, egalitarian and fraternity-driven India envisioned by Dr. Ambedkar was progressively giving mode to a revival of traditional, exclusionary ideas. Media institutions, helium said, were failing to item this regression. “If this continues, extra-constitutional norms volition statesman to overshadow law values,” helium cautioned.
The programme was attended by Registrar Virupakshi Pujarahalli, Syndicate members Somasekhar Bannadimane and Peer Basha, deans of assorted faculties, professors, non-teaching unit and probe scholars.
