Rural employment: As opportunities drop, women pay the highest price When Kamal Gangrude looks across at the fields beside her home on the valley floor, she sees swathes of farmland which this year will not be weeded, ploughed or planted. […]
Popular history had us all believe that it was because of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that India is independent today. But the truth lies buried away deep, and purposely too, by those who find it difficult to digest. Bose or Gandhi: […]
In the Preface to her “The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and ‘Annihilation of Caste’. The Debate between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi” Arundhati Roy states that it was originally written as an introduction to the annotated […]
There’s a short stretch of road in the “Little India” section of Jersey City bearing a name unfamiliar to most Americans. But for some Indian Americans, Ambedkar Avenue is almost a pilgrimage spot, for it commemorates their greatest hero — […]
ONE out of every two Indians goes to bed hungry at night. That’s almost 700 million Indians. The number comes from McKinsey. But you don’t need a consultant to tell you about the distress in India. It is evident on […]
Chennai: Under the blazing noon sun, the half-moon atop the gold coloured ‘pallivasal’ dome glints. The mosque is not too old. It was constructed only in August 1994, but it is steeped in history and stands as a reminder against […]
Mumbai and Nashik: When Kamal Gangrude looks across at the fields beside her home on the valley floor, she sees swathes of farmland which this year will not be weeded, ploughed or planted. Sold to developers who will build factories […]
It took me 10 years after my B Tech to embrace my identity. It took me my MA to be able to say, I am Pallavi Banothu, Lambadi, an ST. It took me 3 years after that to articulate the […]
With over 900 million voters which is roughly thrice the population of the USA and more than the population of entire Europe, the general election in the world largest democracy has many countless facets which make it perhaps the great […]
Bharat Ratna Dr B.R. Ambedkar said: “The third thing we must do is not be content with mere political democracy. We must note that our political democracy can not last unless there lies at the base of its social democracy. […]
