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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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Muslims cannot be forced to sing ‘Vande Mataram’ as it conflicts with Islamic belief of monotheism, says Maulana Arshad Madani 

On Monday, Parliament began a special session to discuss Vande Mataram, with Prime Minister Modi leading the discussion. Muslim and some opposition MPs spoke against mandatory recitation, arguing that its contents conflict with their religious beliefs.  Maulana Arshad Madani, senior Islamic scholar and current Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband, clarified that while Muslims have no objection to others reciting or...

Uttar Pradesh: Woman, 66, booked for providing false details about sons in voter roll survey

Uttar Pradesh: Woman, 66, booked for providing false details about sons in voter roll survey

Rampur DM says a BLO found the woman hid her sons’ overseas addresses and allegedly forged their signatures; a case has been filed against her and her sons. A 66-year-old Muslim woman in Rampur has been booked for allegedly providing false information about her two sons during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, authorities said. The woman, identified as...

Only 27% of Waqf properties registered on UMEED portal after deadline lapses

Only 27% of Waqf properties registered on UMEED portal after deadline lapses

Karnataka topped the list with registrations for 81% of its 65,242 properties, followed by Jammu & Kashmir (77%), Punjab (90%) and Gujarat (61%). West Bengal recorded the lowest compliance, with only 716 registrations, less than 1% of its 80,480 properties. Only about 27% of India’s roughly 800,000 waqf properties have been registered on the government’s new UMEED portal after a...

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