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The Ambedkar cartoons: Not all laughter is created equal

A piercing study of cartoons mocking B.R. Ambedkar that were published in India between 1932 and 1956The trigger for the book was a controversy over the inclusion of one such cartoon by K. Shankar Pillai in an NCERT textbook

4 min read9 Aug 2019
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Ambedkar and the right to vote

BR Ambedkar, as the chairman of the Constitution’s drafting committee, played a crucial role in ensuring that India got universal adult franchise after IndependenceAmbedkar’s argument that voting was essential to citizenship and that voting served as a means of political education for the historically deprived sections was key to India’s voting rights

5 min read12 Apr 2019
Politics

The most influential judgements in Supreme Court’s history

The Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India verdict has been cited 215 times by other apex court judgements, followed by State of Haryana vs Bhajan Lal

4 min read18 Sep 2018
Opinion

Opinion | Does Odisha need a legislative council?

Intense and detailed study of legislative councils and their role in enriching the process of legislation needs to be undertaken and analysed

4 min read3 Sep 2018
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Menaka Guruswamy dreams of a ‘complete freedom’

As long as there's discrimination on the basis of gender, faith, caste or anything else, the promise of the Constitution will remain unfulfilled

5 min read10 Aug 2018
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Sudipto Mondal dreams of a Dalit nation

The Dalit-Ambedkarite struggle for self-actualization has been non-violent and idea-driven through its history. It's time for the two competing factions of the political and social elite to stop playing the good-cop-bad-cop game and pass the baton

10 min read10 Aug 2018
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Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati of Kolhapur, a reformer ahead of his time

In 1902, long before B.R. Ambedkar enshrined affirmative action in the Constitution, a 28-year-old monarch of the princely state of Kolhapur took the radical decision of reserving 50% of government posts for the backward classes

10 min read10 Aug 2018
Politics

Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution

After being on the sidelines of Dalit and feminist movements for long, Dalit women are now standing up for their rights

8 min read6 Aug 2018
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The unusual annihilator of caste

An engineer, MBA and former CEO, Anand Teltumbde is also a leading scholar and activist for Dalit rights

7 min read11 May 2018
Politics

Govt promise-bound to fulfill Ambedkar’s dream of equality: Ram Madhav

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav says the Modi government is 'promise-bound' to fulfill the dream of B.R. Ambedkar to bring equality in the country

1 min read14 Apr 2018
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