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It’s caste, stupid

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  Kuffir Unfortunately thought in India is rare, and free thought is rarer still. This is particularly true of Hindus. ~ Babasaheb Ambedkar, in the epilogue to ‘Pakistan, or The Partition of India’. The left has been questioning the foundations of anti-caste politics recently, a little more whiningly than it usually does because it has …

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Sathyamurthy: People’s Poet and Leader Who Lived and Died Among the People

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  Karthik Navayan  Today 17th April is the 1st death anniversary of K.G.Sathyamurthy (‘Sivasagar’) the revolutionary leader and poet from Andhra Pradesh. He was the poor man among the poor, intellectual among the intellectuals and a soldier among the soldiers.  Simple because of his social background, because he belonged to an untouchable community and faced …

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No More Student Suicides, No More Caste Discrimination, No More Dropouts

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  Forum Against Caste Discrimination in Education Acknowledging the widespread caste discrimination prevalent across the Indian campuses and in solidarity with the ongoing protest by Dalit, Adivasi and Backward caste students of the School of Germanic Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, more than 200 students, teachers and professionals from across the country …