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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...

Vilification from the apolitical: The Dreyfus Affair and the case against JNU: Joyojeet Pal

Photo: Courtesy csuohio.eduThe notion that we are a different,...

दलित स्त्री आंदोलन; चिंतन और संघर्ष की चुनौतियां

  भारतीय समाज की सबसे निचली सीढ़ी पर खड़ी दलित...

We are paying the price of holding our heads high: Shital Sathe

Singing songs of ordinary people, especially Dalits, Shital Sathe...

Stop the deification and appropriation of Babasaheb: Dalit youth to the Sangh Parivar

On January 22, 2016, graduate students of the Babasaheb...

Caste Reverberates on TISS Campus, counter allegations against Dalit student made

Through January 2016, the campus of the Tata Institute...

Why Ambedkar rejected, outright Gandhi’s views on Temple entry

Image: Ram RahmanGandhi’s refusal to accept that caste was...

Cast Out Caste: Allegations of Abusive Behaviour among Mass Communication students in Delhi

Image; Dominic Lipinski/PA   Dalit and Adivasi write to the...

When Delhi Police act as the Sangh’s Private Army

  An open letter to young protestors who were brutally...

हम जब नींद में थे, लालटेन बुझ गयी…

प्रकाश सावमयंक सक्सेनाप्रकाश साव से मुलाक़ात का श्रेय, रंगकर्मी...

Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report

  In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up...

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