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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...

Laughing all the way

Cartoons on Ambedkar have generated enough debate on the...

The Cunning of Caste

With Independence Day right around the corner, the Indian Cultural...

Public prosecutor in the Una Dalit atrocity case quits

Citing reasons of security and remuneration, special public prosecutor...

2019-20 SC-ST budget allocation only for accounting purposes and not for real implementation

Excerpts from the chapter “Ministry / Department wise priority...

Anti-mob lynching law: UP following in MP’s footsteps?

Earlier this year, the Kamalnath government in Madhya Pradesh...

Implementation of FRA 2006 must become a Political Programme: Public Hearing

Public Hearing records grave incidents of atrocities on forest...

Raja Dhale: A Giant Has Gone

A giant has gone. I had met him several...

Article 15: A Spectacle of Dalit Oppression

The Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Article 15 appears to have...

Bina Paul: “Collective viewing is empowering”

Bharathy Singaravel in conversation with the Artistic Director of...

Kemat Gawale, a Dalit rights activist’s seminal contribution in the field of education

Horrendous caste oppression will not end and Dalit emancipation...

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