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The khadi he wore, the Gandhi he kept: A Dalit memoir that refuses easy answers

Recently, I received a message from someone I had known since my Gandhinagar days, when I represented the Times of India from 1997 to 2012. He wanted to send me the...

Mother’s Day 2016: What the State Owes Mothers, Parents And Women

  Image Credit: Panos    Today is Mother’s Day. As I sit...

Consumption, import and possession of beef allowed in Maharashtra: Bombay High Court

Photo credit: Deadlylaw.comThe Bombay High Court today struck down...

PM to Meet Jisha’s Mother in Kerala: Sorry, Delta, There Were No Elections in Rajasthan

Delta Meghwal (left); Jisha (right)   Barely 38 days ago, on March...

Jisha’s Death Sparks Countrywide Protests

  The brutal violence meted out to Jisha, a 30...

जिशा, मेरी दोस्त, दलितों की जान इतनी सस्ती क्यों है?: चिंटू

अतिथि पोस्ट : चिंटू    जिशा, मेरी दोस्त मेरी यार, क्या कहूँ...

Do Not Rest in Peace, Jisha: Shehla Rashid

Dear Jisha, I never knew you, nor did you...

Outrage in Kerala over Dalit Woman Rape, NHRC Sends Notice, Two in Custody

Image Cortesy: ReutersOutrage in Kerala over Nirbhaya-like Dalit Woman...

Dalit Women Student Brutalised Before Murder: Kerala

  Silence of the ‘national media’ around the death of...

As Dalits in a Gujarat village threaten self-immolation is Anandiben listening?

Dalits from Modi’s Home District of Mehsana and the...

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