When development triggers caste violence

Countercurrents.org Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again ...

JAMMU, May 2: The news of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh succumbing to the injuries inflicted on him in Pakistan's jail was today met with grief and condemnations across Jammu region. BJP activists held protest over the death, raised slogans against ...

In Pali, the word navayana means new vehicle. Dr BR Ambedkar used the word in 1956 to describe the branch of Buddhism that wouldn't be mired in the Hinayana-Mahayana divide, but would help dalits gain equality in India. It's a fitting name for the ...

From Parliament in New Delhi to Manatralaya in Mumbai, the father of Indias Constitution, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was paid rich tributes on his 122nd birth anniversary on Sunday. On the occasion, governor of Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan, chief minister ...

The Supreme Court decision on Friday rejecting the plea of Devinder Singh Bhullar's family to commute his death sentence to life on grounds of inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition earlier, has 'shocked' political parties in Tamil Nadu campaigning ...

The Kabir Kala Manch and Deshbhakti Yuva Manch trace their ideological lineage to the radical left and radical Ambedkarite movements in Maharashtra. What are the issues these cultural activists engage with, and why do they make the state so ...

Frankly I curse myself for having gone to Chandigarh. Not so much because I am embarrassed by the unseemly controversy created by certain pseudo Ambedkarites in Maharashtra but because I am deeply saddened to see the egotistic bunch of people with ...

NEWS No Comments She is a woman known for her remarkable fight against racial injustice and advocacy for political prisoners. While Angela Davis now speaks about her past reflexively, it was her discussion of abolition and its connection to ...

How political threats from TN have always kept the Centre on edge July 1997 The DMK threatens to withdraw support from the United Front government over its differences with the CPI(M), especially on fodder scam accused Laloo Prasad Yadav, and ...