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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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NHRC directs Uttar Pradesh to pay Rs 10 lakh over Muslim man’s death in police custody

NHRC directs Uttar Pradesh to pay Rs 10 lakh over Muslim man’s death in police custody

Ziauddin, 36, of Ambedkar Nagar, died from injuries he allegedly sustained as a result of torture while in police custody. The National Human Rights Commission has ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to compensate the family of a man who died after being taken into police custody in 2021, directing a payment of Rs 10 lakh, The Indian Express reported on...

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West Bengal BJP leader honours men accused of assaulting Muslim vendors at Gita Event

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SC declines to suspend ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s 20-year sentence in drug case

SC declines to suspend ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s 20-year sentence in drug case

Bhatt been a prominent critic of former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In a 2011 petition, he accused Modi of encouraging the 2002 communal violence. The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to suspend the 20-year prison term handed to former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1996 drug-planting case, Live Law reported. Bhatt, who is already serving a life sentence...

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