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Periyar: Caste, Nation and Socialism

Periyar: Caste, Nation and Socialism published by People’s Literature Publications, Mumbai is a fascinating conversation between S V Rajadurai and Vidya Bhushan Rawat which brings out numerous hitherto unknown...

A Former PHD Student, a Dalit Dies in JNU: Administration Unconcerned

Ghanshyam DasGhanshyam Das, a Dalit and a former Research...

Karnataka’s Opposition to Right-Wing Hindu Fundamentalism

Report from the Dakshinayan meeting in KarnatakaThe urban middle-class,...

Panel to Probe Rohith Vemula’s Death: A Cynical Denial of Caste Discrimination

There is an anonymous poem called “Mr. Nobody” which...

Resist the Republic of Fear! Stop Mob Lynching in India

South Asians March in London on Independence Day, Send...

Secular Indians Marched to Protect Democracy

In a massive show of strength hundreds of Indians...

India at 70: bigotry rules

"Hyper-nationalism and the closing of the mind is also...

Lynch mobs: How the cow has clouded our civilisational vision

Buddhism, the propagator of non-violence as supreme religion, spread...

Which Evil & Who would Krishna Battle if He were Born Today? 

Just ask yourselves this: if Krishna was to be born...

let My Country Awake @70!

Exactly seventy years ago, it was freedom at midnight...

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