On 28 April 2026, Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor, Politics, SIAS delivered an online talk for the Bahujan Students Front at the University of Hyderabad titled ‘Educate, Agitate, Organize: Dalit and Black Visions of Liberation’. The lecture offered a comparative reflection on the Black civil rights movement and Dalit struggles for equality, highlighting how both traditions challenged systems of inherited hierarchy through ideas, protest, and collective organisation. It examined the contributions of thinkers such as B R Ambedkar, Jyotirao Phule, W E B Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr, and Angela Davis, while exploring themes of dignity, democracy, representation, and student responsibility. The talk concluded by emphasising the continuing relevance of education, agitation, and solidarity in confronting contemporary forms of exclusion and injustice.
