Keynotes and Conversations

Keynote by Dr. Suraj Yengde on, ‘Du Bois and Ambedkar: Their Meanings of Democracy and Freedom’ at W.E.B Du Bois Legacy Festival in February 2024.

The feature of Indian society is the operational existence of antiquated caste values. Though outlawed in the second half of the last century, caste continues to exist because it has carried historical amnesia for those who have attached existentialism to the past — Sanatan— unchanging pure belief.

The key panel discussion on ‘Ashoka and India’s Past Future’ during Kerala Literature Festival 2024 with Bharati Prabhu, Prashant Ingole, Suraj Yengde, Atul Bhosekar and Mangesh Dahiwale.

A talk at the 2nd Ajay Gandhi Memorial in Hyderabad was delivered by Dr Suraj Yengde. What is ‘new’ in the #caste history of the world? Is it engagements, experiences, definitions, articulations, and protests? What has managed to universalize these emotional responses is the intermediary role the internet has taken in communicating the message. The history of caste cannot be written without the impact the internet has managed to create and its growing prowess in mediating the social history of a community.

This talk was given on 30th September, 2023 at Mavelikara, Kerala during the Inauguration Ceremony Mavelikara (DhammaBhoomi) Organised by the Buddhist Fraternity Council, from Mavelikara, Kerala to Nagpur, Deekhsha Bhoomi from 30th September to 22nd October, 2023.