An interview with Dilip Mandal Dilip Mandal, a senior journalist and writer, is currently associated with Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. He has been consistently writing on some of the most important socio-economic issues before our country, in newspapers and on internet. He has recently edited a book ‘Caste Census: Parliament, Society and Media'.

Here he is interacting with Insight members – Gurinder Singh Azad, Anup Vimal, Noopur and Anoop Kumar – on the issue of caste census.  This interview is also being published in Hindi here.

Indian political space is going through some churning as parties are fighting for political space. Political parties are in a struggle for revival and survival. Now, the voter supreme has to decide kind of political canvas they want, a colorful canvas or a canvas with few limited colors.

Kurukshetra: Kamal is no miracle boy who has set out to script a conventional rags-to-riches story. A rag picker from a backward class family of six which hardly ever manages the day’s meals, he has no illusions about making it big in life.

Thanks to the Haryana government’s monthly stipend scheme, 10.4 lakh SC, BC and BPL boys and girls are on rolls at nearby government schools and have a real chance of making it big in life.

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by P S Krishnan

The identi?cation of and reservation for the backward classes among Muslims has been a contentious issue, most recently in Andhra Pradesh. However there is a clear case, on constitutional grounds, for such reservation. A detailed discussion of the national situation and reservation measures in some states.

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DON'T find it at all difficult to understand how Barack Obama thinks, because most of his beliefs are part of the broad consensus in America's centre or centre-left: greenhouse-gas emissions reductions, universal health insurance, financial-reform legislation, repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and so forth.

BERHAMPUR: The principal challenge facing the Church in India is not the reconstruction of buildings destroyed by anti-Catholic violence by Hindu fundamentalists, but rather the restoration of interreligious trust, says a bishop of Orissa.

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BY VIDYA BHUSHAN RAWAT

My last article evoked sharp reactions as some felt that personal matters should remain personal and we should discuss the professional issues of an individual and should not indulge in peeping into the personal affairs of people.I would like to reiterate that by talking about double standards in our life, I am not poking my nose in the personal affairs of individuals.

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