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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

How Brahmins Negated The Progress of India

In my earlier article “Shudras Built The Indus Valley...

Activists disrupt Hindu supremacist conclave in Chicago, evoke violent reaction from extremists

The Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), an umbrella...

Why do some Indians both oppose Reservation and burn the Constitution?

The dual attack by a section, relatively entitled in...

Upper Caste ‘Bharat Bandh’ – In Defence of Dalit Atrocities

The bandh fizzled out but the politics behind it...

What is the Elgar Parishad and who Oganised It?

On December 31, 2-17 a fiercely passionate gathering of...

SC, ST to get quota only in their home states: SC verdict

A five-judge Constitution bench unanimously held that an SC/...

Dalit Family Targetted by Upper-caste Mob in Bhima-Koregaon Violence Still Awaits Justice

First Published on June 12, 2018 While they have faced...

“Involvement of radical Hindutva elements in Bhima Koregaon violence: Pune Mayor”

First Published on January 23, 2018Evidence has been mounting...

Who is Milind Ekbote?

First published on January 22, 2018The name of Milind...

Which political party in India really backs the Dalits today?

It was just recently that the atrocity law --enacted...

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