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Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 3

Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 3

In bringing them to where they are today, MK Gandhi and Ram Manohar Lohia were crucial not just as politicians, but also as thinkers who shaped Indian mores. Both were organic intellectuals of the Banias, both had prestigious Western educations and mastery over English, and both wrote and published extensively. They gained immense stature amid the largely Brahmin thinkers who...

Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 2

Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 2

NARENDRA MODI BECAME PRIME MINISTER in 2014 on the back of proclamations that he belonged to the Other Backward Classes, implying that he was a representative of the Shudras. Many accepted the proclamation without the scrutiny it deserves. Looking closely at Modi’s caste group, the Modh Ghanchis of Gujarat, we should be skeptical of his assertion of Shudra status. If the...

Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 1

Why the Shudras are lost in today’s India- Part 1

When the government implemented the Mandal Commission recommendations, in the early 1990s, it was meant to be a watershed moment for the Shudras. The measure reserved positions in government employment and public higher education for the Other Backward Classes—a category made up overwhelmingly of disadvantaged Shudra castes, traditionally labourers and craftspeople. The commission had identified these castes, part of the...

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NDTV’s popular anchor Ravish Kumar has been conferred with the prestigious Ramon Megsasay Award 2019

NDTV’s popular anchor Ravish Kumar has been conferred with the prestigious Ramon Megsasay Award 2019

Many Congratulations Ravish for winning prestigious Ramon Megsasay Award for “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”. NDTV Ravish Kumar has been conferred this honour for the year of 2019. Ravish Kumar is among the five recipients of the 2019 Magsaysay award, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel, which recognises the “greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia”....

Kashmir mediation: Delhi denies Trump’s claim, says no such request ever made

Kashmir mediation: Delhi denies Trump’s claim, says no such request ever made

The Ministry reiterates long-held position that the Kashmir issue is to be discussed bilaterally between India and Pakistan. In a sharp rebuttal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments, the government denied that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had requested Mr. Trump to mediate between India and Pakistan. “We have seen [Mr. Trump’s] remarks to the press that he is ready to mediate,...

PM Modi asked me to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir: Trump

PM Modi asked me to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir: Trump

“If I can help, I would love to be a mediator,” the U.S. President said. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to. “I was with Prime Minister Modi two weeks ago and we talked about this subject and he actually said ‘Would you...

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