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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...

India’s Sixth of December

The sixth of December is a day that is...

Minority Rights and State wrongs

  The massacre of innocents in Paris by the Islamic...

Thanks but no thanks: Leading activist declines state honour

  Jagmati, general secretary, AIDWA writes to Maneka Gandhi protesting government’s anti-people...

Ambedkar against Hindu Rashtra

  Until 1992, December 6 was remembered as ‘Parinirvan Divas’...

A man of the people is no more

Dr Brahma Dutt Sharma   Saathi tere sapno ko manzil tak...

Are Indian Christians safe under NDA II Rule?

Courtesy: John Dayal   Yes, says John Dayal who outlines 168...

Teach equality, remove discrimination

Courtesy: AFPMake Ambedkar’s thoughts part of school and college...

The Ambedkar Nehru combine saved India from becoming a Hindu Rashtra

Red Fort, 1993                   Courtesy: Ram Rahman   The Constitution of India...

Just like a Dog

  There is a Sinhala proverb which goes like this,...

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Much more than an iconTackling the historical denial...

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