Ibin Nayakm Ravish Kumar (Brahmin) has resigned from NDTV (New Delhi Television): that’s big news in India now. The takeover of NDTV by Adani, the country’s largest monopolist and the world’s second richest man, is believed to have led to the resignation of Ravish Kumar. Self-proclaimed liberals are picking on this action of the journalist …
Rajendra Pal Gautam’s Resignation and the Irony of Celebrating Ambedkar
Paras Kumar On the 5th of October, Rajendra Pal Gautam, the minister of social welfare in the NCT Delhi Government, attended the Buddha Dhamma Deeksha Samaroh event, which was organised by Mission Jai Bhim and the Buddhist Society of India on the occasion of Ashoka Vijaya Dashmi, at which hundreds of Dalits embraced Buddhism. Gautam …
Reservation is not a Poverty Alleviation Program but a Weapon for Social Justice
Vikas Parasram Meshram Much has been written on the split decision of the Constitution Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court upholding reservation for economically weaker sections; therefore, it is unnecessary to repeat it. Only one point needs to be highlighted: there was no disagreement in the constitution bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court regarding economic …
Paean for Dr. G. N. Saibaba
Chanchal Kumar In the recent news about dear departed Father Stan Swamy, it has been concluded that there indeed was a conspiracy to frame him. There has been conclusive evidence that incriminating content was planted in his device in order to criminalise him. Father Stan Swamy was even refused a sipper in his final days …
The Pasmanda Muslim Question and the BJP
Benish Ali The recent reports of the ruling BJP’s attempts to address the concerns of ‘lower castes’ among non-Hindus and subsequent reports of the union government’s intentions to formulate a national commission on such castes among Muslims and Christians has attracted attention of scholars of diverse hues. In this context, an attempt has been made …
Individual-centered Elections are Dangerous for Democracy
Vikas Parasram Meshram It is natural for all common people to wonder when the Prime Minister gets time to work because he has to be in his office and dispose of files; it takes time, but since last year he has been busy with election campaigning. Voting has already been held in Himachal Pradesh and …
Democracy in India as Envisioned by Dr. Ambedkar
Sidhodhan Umare Abstract In this paper I have talked about the etymology of the word democracy within the Indian context. Then I have discussed the idea of democracy in India with special reference to Dr. Ambedkar’s conception of democracy, the sources of his philosophy of democracy that he used like the Navayana Buddhism which promotes …
Can we please stop mentioning ‘harvard-return’, IIT-ian, and JNU grad?
Rachelle Bharathi Chandran I wrote a story last month about the way we as a society have relegated an entire group of people to do cleaning work and argued for the need for systemic change, not merely ‘fair pay’ as per savarna women’s imagination. What I didn’t discuss in it was the most important factor …
Indian Institutes of Savarnas: Reservation Norms Violated during PhD admission and Faculty Recruitment in IIT/IIMs
Pranav Jeevan P India’s premier higher educational institutions for Engineering and Management, IITs and IIMs, have been violating the constitutionally mandated reservation norms for years. The violations are visible mostly in the PhD admissions and faculty recruitment where there is no centralized exam like JEE, GATE or CAT. The RTIs filed by Ambedkar Periyar Phule …