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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...

There Is No Flag Large Enough To Cover The Shame Of Killing Innocent People

The incident happened during protests against visiting Indian Prime...

Modi is becoming a dictator: H.S. Doreswamy

H.S. Doreswamy a freedom fighter, journalist and Activist from...

The Spark in Their Words

The Texts Lived by Basava and Kalburgi   Basava, Kalburgi. Neither...

Against the Yawning Jaws of Hell: Protest Against Hate on 23 April

After the Modi government came to power, citizens of...

Pune Police Raid Dalit Activists’ and Lawyers’ Houses in Bhima Koregaon case

The activists allege that the government is Afraid of...

Three BJP-ruled states begin implementing controversial new SC/ST law

UPDATE On Tuesday, April 17, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh...

The Repellent “New” Idea of India at Work

All will be fine, if you commit heinous crimes...

Why Muthukanni, A Dalit, Had To Build Her Own Panchayat Office

Madhavakurichi Panchayat, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu: It wasn’t personal...

Thus vowed Babasaheb

Having a faced a lifetime of discrimination and seeing...

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