Indian Diaspora Celebrates Shudra Festival of Colors

Title: Annihilation of Caste (The annotated critical edition) Author: B R Ambedkar Publisher: Navayana For millions of year, the primary function of the human brain has been survival; its only mantra truth is survival and survival the only ...

RNA Research & Archives Social justice is the cornerstone of constitutional democracy. The men who drafted Indian Constitution were men of great vision and foresight. There is plethora of conflicting historical narratives on the status of Varna ...

Forward Press The poll battle has begun. The great Indian people will vote to elect the sixteenth Lok Sabha soon. Every election is different. But this election as suggested by forecasts will be remembered long for its outcome. It may prove a ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a crisis. Its old guard, whose glorious days began with the demolition of the Babri Masjid, is being retired prematurely. BJP president Rajnath Singh and the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who ...

Many tend to believe that caste as an instrument of segregation would fade away in the modern times, but caste as a graded system was made a political entity during colonial times and the segregation only increased after the formation of the modern ...

The Jew as well as the Christian, the Hindu no less than the Muslim 'fundamentalist' plies an ideology of superior difference. Each confronts an inferior and threatening Other. Each engages in the politics of exclusion. Hence each poses a menace to ...

NEW DELHI: The joke is that if Jats and Marathas are backward, then may as well put Thakurs and Brahmins on the OBC list and end the farce. With Jats recently put on the central list of backward classes, the day is not far when Marathas and ...

Bhavin Jankharia Last Saturday was 'Women's Day' and you couldn't miss it on WA. There was a surge of women-men jokes and posts, some saccharine sweet, extolling the virtues of mothers, wives, daughters, etc., others taking pot shots at all those ...

From: 15/03/2014 Martin Luther King Jr visited India in 1950s. After his return home, he was full of praise for India, especially for the affirmative action it took for the advancement of the depressed classes. He was referring to the ...