The Ayodhya dispute has a close relationship with India’s first Lok Sabha election that was held from October 1951 to February 1952. But no one talks about it today. This strategic denial of the 1950s in the popular Hindutva retelling […]
The caste picture of India has serious ramifications for the country internationally. When UK tries to legislate to make ‘caste system’ as a basis for discrimination and thus compensation, it is a time to think. Academics, intellectuals, and activists both […]
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections results TN was controlled by DMK and its allies, and they had a big win over ADMK. Particularly in chidambaram counting was going extended till midnight, with the result of Thol Thirumavalavan declared […]
A “free” India would be a model democracy that redistributed power to the marginalised, and purged society of oppressive social institutions, beliefs and practices. B R Ambedkar’s significance in Indian history has been largely credited to the struggle for Dalit […]
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, […]
New Delhi: Known as a crusader for the cause of manual scavenging, 53-year-old Bezwada Wilson was born in the family of manual scavengers. He understood the evil of caste discrimination and problems involved in manual scavenging at a very young […]
Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating the religious holiday, Eid al-Adha, or the “festival of the sacrifice.” While similar to another Islamic holiday, Eid al-Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Adha has its own meaning and […]
Shamnad Basheer (43), leaves behind a legacy of searing intellect and tremendous sensitivity in India’s public life. A globally renowned prize-winning scholar and activist, breathed his last in Karnataka’s Western Ghats on August 8. Basheer leaves behind a legacy of […]
After the Harvey Weinstein investigation broke in 2017, I avoided the #MeToo stories for a while. One morning before work, I finally read Asia Argento’s account of her ‘relationship’ with and rape by Weinstein. I read it several times, suddenly […]
Sometimes titles can be misleading, this book is about Dalits and not about caste. Suraj Yengde, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, belongs to the genre of non-resident Indian Dalit writers, living in the USA, like Yashica […]
