Dalits

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...

Breeze from Bangladesh

While Muslim orthodoxy continues to stonewall any attempt at...

Indian Muslims and the bumble-bee

According to all known laws of aerodynamics (science of...

Hidden apartheid

 From August 31– September 4, when the World Conference...

Broken people

In 1950, the Indian Constitution abolished untouchability (not caste),...

Dalit rights are human rights — the campaign

The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) was...

‘Caste discrimination will not go unless the international community speaks up’

  -- Praveen Rashtrapal, Congress MP   At the preparatory meeting for...

Split Wide Open

  Nature was undiscriminating in the staggering death and devastation...

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