Social Science Initiatives

Eklavya India Foundation

Raju Kendre

The founder and CEO of the Eklavya India Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering first-generation learners from underprivileged backgrounds.

Enabling social mobility through grassroots leadership

Eklavya exists to improve access to quality higher education among first-generation students from marginalized communities through awareness, mentoring, and coaching interventions.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The year 1964 was an important landmark in the history of the Institute, when it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956.

Since its inception, the Vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.

Link to website: https://www.tiss.ac.in/

Link to their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiss.speak/#

Link to their Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@studiotiss

Dr. Suraj Yengde

Dr. Yengde is a transnational Dalit rights activist involved in building solidarities between Dalit, Black, Roma, Indigenous, Buraku and Refugee peoples in the FOURTH WORLD project of marginalized peoples.

His scholarship and activism won him “Dr. Ambedkar Social Justice Award, Canada” (2019), “Rohit Vemula Memorial Scholar Award” (2018), and “Jai Bhim Icon Award” (2022), “Loknete Youth Leader Bhai Vadiya National Award (Academics) (2023).

He is a founder and curator of the Dalit Film Festival (DALIFF), and a co-founder of the Equity in Policy Education initiative started at Harvard.

Dr. Yengde is currently a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. His prior appointments were Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and was part of the founding team of the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University.

Dr. Suraj Yengde is also a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.

He has studied on four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America) and is India’s first Dalit Ph.D. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg).

Originally from Nanded, India, he is an International Human Rights attorney by qualification from India and the UK.

Dr. Yengde's Projects

Dr. Yengde's Talks

Dr. Yengde's Books

Google Sites

Report abuse