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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...

From RSS to Ambedkarite, Bhanwar Meghwanshi’s journey

Bhanwar Meghawanshi –who left the RSS after being within...

Mahatma Gandhi on Caste: the Varna-Ashrama System

To Gandhi, the rigid ‘varna’ system and the social...

‘Raven’: The new art of protest from the land of Sahodaran Ayyappan

When Adarsh Kumar Aniyal gave the title ‘A story...

Manual Scavenging still on: How Swachh is GOI’s conscience?

On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched the...

SC/ST Act dilution row: Apex court allows review of previous judgement

In a shot in the arm for rights of...

Not just open Defecation, Dalit Girl Child was molested too, says Father: MP Murder

Father of Roshni, 15 brutally beaten to death on...

Tall claims of India’s ‘great civilisation’ are humbug

Past and present, India cannot lay claim to ‘greatness’...

Two Dalit Kids Beaten to Death for Defecating in Open: MP

Two Dalit children, aged 10 and 12, were beaten...

Dalit MP shunned away from Gollarahatti last week receives grand welcome: Karnataka

On September 16, Chitradurga MP A Narayanaswamy was stopped...

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