Charanjit Singh Channi is a member of the Ramdasia community, and among a handful of Dalits who have served as chief ministers By Amitoj Singh Kalsi Charanjit Singh Channi became the first Dalit chief minister of Punjab on Monday a […]
Through a series of twists and turns, the Congress high command finally spoke its mind on Punjab on Sunday. Ahead of assembly elections early next year, it picked a Dalit chief minister–Charanjit Singh Channi– a first-ever from the community for […]
September 17 marked the 87th birth anniversary of the nomoshudro Bengali poet. By Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury It was January, 2021, I was headed to Thakurnagar, a small town about four hours away from Kolkata. Thakurnagar lies on the India-Bangladesh border, […]
Entertainment can be an agent of social change. Social messages delivered through movies reach the right audience scattered across class, caste and culture. Through their engaging and relatable plots, movies with social messages democratise the responsibility of social change by […]
When we were in Nagpur in the 1990s, Anuradha and I would, every year, visit the Diksha Bhoomi on Dussehra day – the day Ambedkar took diksha into Buddhism in 1956, and commemorated every year with lakhs turning up. I […]
Hindu social and spiritual leaders need to come together to convince people against the caste system. There is a remarkable similarity in the fall of two epic warriors: Achilles and Duryodhan. Abhijit Majumder When Achilles was an infant, there was […]
The 20-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by four Thakur men in UP’s Hathras district last September. BISMEE TASKIN Hathras: There are no photos of the 20-year-old Hathras ‘gang-rape’ victim on the walls of her house. The saree […]
CNN spoke to several activists from Dalit Women Fight (DWF), which campaigns for the rights of women from their community. While Riya Singh and Mohini Bala are public about their work, the names of the other activists have been changed […]
Satyajit Ray asked Om Puri to walk gingerly into the priest’s house in Sadgati’s first scene. Puri didn’t know what gingerly meant, so Ray said, “When a dog or a goat enters an unknown house, he enters gingerly.” That anthropomorphic […]
A tribute to a man who ‘collected the bricks of life’s obstacles to build a castle of new world and hope’. Suraj Yengde Nanded, a small town in the hinterland of Maharashtra, affixes its coordinates in between the cultures of […]
