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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

For A New Rendezvous With Dr Ambedkar – Focus on Last Decade of his Life

..Everybody would agree that it is a challenging task...

Survivor Kausalya Stands Up Against Caste-Driven Honour Killing, a Year After Husband’s Murder

On April 14, 2017 Kausalya will  for the Annihilation...

A year after Rohit Vemula’s death, another Dalit PhD student commits suicide in JNU

Exactly a year after the suicide of a Dalit...

Another Dalit killed in Haryana: Jat girl’s family brutally murders the boy she married

Honor killing in Haryana is more rampant than what...

Over 5,000 women to march against casteism on Savitribai Phule’s death anniversary

The organisers believe this will be the first time...

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After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh

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Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

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Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…