Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

A Small Leap Forward: Chhattisgarh, Mining, Democracy and Gumipal

The year 2026 marks a century of mining in Chhattisgarh. In 1926, mining began at the Jhagrakhand colliery in the erstwhile princely state of Korea. Over the next hundred...

Criteria for Identification of Backward Sections among Religious Minorities

Observations of the commission41. he existing criteria for identifying...

Demands for Amending Constitution (Schedule Castes) Order 1950

Constitutional provisions1. The Constitution of India does not restrict...

Recommendation and Modalities for their Implementation

1. In the preceding chapters, we have discussed at...

Dereliction of duty

How Gujarat’s top cops deserted residents of Gulberg Society   CP...

Dereliction of duty

How Gujarat’s top cops deserted residents of Gulberg Society   CP...

My cousin, the suicide bomber

A brutalised Afghan society does not know whether to...

Alpine Bigotry

Roman Orthodox Church in Hama, Syria   The Swiss vote against...

A man who knew the future

The uncanny prescience of Maulana Abul Kalam AzadIn April...

Villain of the piece

Accused number one: Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat  The...

The silent conspirator

Accused number 29: PC Pande, former commissioner of police,...

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