For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Kumar Saikrishna Nayak Elections used to be loud. Street-corner rallies, hoarse loudspeakers, campaigners going door to door, entire neighbourhoods gathered around a television for the evening debate. That version of democracy is dying, and most of us haven’t quite noticed the funeral. The real contest now happens somewhere quieter — inside a smartphone screen, in …
Saraswati Suna Literature both reflects and shapes social life. This article examines how literature, people’s perspectives, and social life are deeply entangled. It asks how literary works and social relations are interpreted through selective lenses that foreground some forms of inequality while obscuring others. What readers notice in a literary work is not always separate …
Kshirod B Nag A society becomes dynamic not when everyone thinks alike, but when people possess the freedom and courage to question, debate and rethink what they have inherited. Every generation receives beliefs, customs, institutions and social practices from the past. Some enrich human life; others may perpetuate inequality simply because they have acquired the …
Ravindra Kumar Goliya Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most transformative technologies in human history. In a remarkably short period, AI has moved from a specialised computational technology to a general-purpose tool capable of writing, designing, analysing, reasoning, generating images and video, assisting scientific research, and increasingly performing tasks once considered uniquely human. …
Kunal Nakshane For the Madia Adivasi community in the Bhamragad region, the Bablai Mata Yatra (pilgrimage/fair) is not just a religious pilgrimage but a living symbol of cultural, environmental, and constitutional rights. However, in recent times, the politics of development, religious conversion, the administration, and Naxalism have begun to significantly impact the Bablai Yatra. For …
Akhilesh Kumar Two days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a public rally at Haldwani’s Ramlila Maidan in Uttarakhand on August 8, a shuddhikaran havan was conducted at the same venue. Members of the Shri Ram Sena Dharmarth Seva Nyas Sangathan performed the ritual to purify the site. The organisation cited the slogans raised at the rally …
Dr. Nishant Kumar The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education, Government of India (a Gen-X person born between 1965–1980), has come as a shock, as it was considered impossible to get a resignation from any minister of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government from 2014 till now. However, the students of Gen-Z (born between 1997–2012, …
Round Table India brings together perspectives from Dalit and Bahujan communities.
Round Table India brings together perspectives from Dalit and Bahujan communities.