Category Caste Discrminination
BY GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGAR Ibram and his mother. Credit: Gaurav Bhatnagar New Delhi: The controversial three-day ‘World Culture Festival’ being organised by the Art of Living Foundation of godman Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the banks of the Yamuna from March 11 is aimed at “Making… Continue Reading →
By Anand Teltumbde The vested interests while lauding Babasaheb Ambedkar have systematically reduced him to be his near ideological antithesis. The ruling classes and their state of course have played a vanguard role but even his so called followers have… Continue Reading →
Good Luck Controlling It. BY PURUSHOTTAM AGRAWAL The demonisation of intellectuals, the glorification of brute force and the weakening of institutional practices are all indications of Indian democracy turning into a dystopia. ABVP activists at a protest against “anti-national” elements in Delhi on… Continue Reading →
Mahishasura, Asura… – What Dr. Ambedkar said A comparison between the Vedic and Puranic Goddesses raises some interesting questions. One of them is quite obvious. Vedic literature is full of references to wars against the Asuras. The literature known as Brahmanas… Continue Reading →
NO NATION FOR WOMEN: A Statement by Pinjra Tod “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf An Adivasi school-teacher and… Continue Reading →
Anubhuti Vishnoi & Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the one common thread in the spate of controversies dominating headlines from university campuses, be it Delhi, Hyderabad or the JNU.Its growing clout and assertiveness about… Continue Reading →
Jawaharlal Nehru University The Sangh Parivar’s student wing across campuses has been given the responsibility of raising the slogan of anti-nationalism wherever democratic aspirations are expressed, or filing some complaint on an innocuous issue, and the HRD Ministry promptly swoops… Continue Reading →
Bengaluru, Feb 12: It has been more than seven months since 17-year-old Dalit boy Anil Parasuram Metri was allegedly murdered at Mirji village of Bagalkot district in Karnataka. He was allegedly poisoned to death for ‘writing’ a love letter–a charge… Continue Reading →
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot will chair a meeting in this regard on February 17 to deliberate on the ways to ensure proper implementation of the Act so that it may act as a deterrent… Continue Reading →
Arvind Chauhan | TNN | Hindustan College student Madhuri AGRA: A Dalit girl pursuing MBA was allegedly duped of nearly Rs 2 lakhs in scholarship money by a private college here. Hindustan College student Madhuri, whose annual family salary is… Continue Reading →