Of Caste Massacre And Judicial Impunity: Bloodstains In Bathan...

The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), in its advice to the Central government, has rejected the request for inclusion of Jats in the Central lists of other backward classes (OBC) for Haryana, national capital territory (NCT) of Delhi, ...

After successfully getting Penguin Books India to agree to pulp all copies of Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti (SBAS) demanded on Saturday, March 1, 2014 that the Aleph Book Company stop sales and ...

Countercurrents.org During the colonial days, the first expression of the resentment of the Untouchables was against their exclusion from social processes. Barring Jotiba Phule, who conceived their cause beyond untouchability and included them ...

Today, India's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fou­rth of its celebrated GDP. [1] In a nation of 1.2 billion, more than 800 million people live on less than Rs 20 a day. [2] Giant corporations virtually own and run ...

Perhaps the clearest statement on what exactly it is in Wendy Doniger's work that bothers some people—and who these people are—is outlined in Jakob De Roover's empathetic account of the imagined Hindu boy with intellectual inclinations born ...

Amartya Sen's "Argumentative Indians" are increasingly losing their right to delight in vociferous debate, thanks to a series of new bans on books, movies, TV serials, artworks and even Facebook posts. This perilous dip in tolerance and freedom of ...

After the Kanthalloor Shala disappeared a 1,000 years ago, arguably coinciding with Chola invasion of Thiruvananthapuram, no detailed information on the educational system in Kerala is available to us for the next 600 years. In 1665, The Travels ...

Pradip Bhattacharya Some years ago Oxford University Press perpetrated astonishing acts of capitulation to bigoted elements. They stopped publication of parts 9 and 10 of their outstanding series on value-education in schools, Living in Harmony.

PATNA: Valentine's Day this year was also Sant Ravidas Jayanti: in honour of the guru of the Bhakti movement who was a cobbler by caste. The Bhakti movement was a quest for the equality of human beings before God and the quest for a society where ...