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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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Brutal Killing, De-humanizing of IDPs in Assam: A Gross Violation of Human Rights and Land Policy

Brutal Killing, De-humanizing of IDPs in Assam: A Gross Violation of Human Rights and Land Policy

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Assam, the northeastern state of India with one-third Muslims in the state population, has nearly 3.62 lakh landless families in 31 of its 33 districts. They are Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in their own land. This has been mainly because of land erosion and devastation caused by the mighty Brahmaputra river. These IDPs are indigenous people...

Nine of a family dead in a road accident in Chhattisgarh

Nine of a family dead in a road accident in Chhattisgarh

Nine people, including a one-year-old girl, died and more than half a dozen were injured in a road accident in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district on Sunday.All the deceased were from the same family, police said. The incident occurred on Sunday, after the autorickshaw they were travelling in collided with an SUV, police said, near Borgaon turn under the Farasgaon police station...

Taliban announce new acting govt for Afghanistan: Here’s a full list of cabinet ministers

Taliban announce new acting govt for Afghanistan: Here’s a full list of cabinet ministers

The Taliban has announced the names of several members of a new caretaker government in Afghanistan led by Mohammad Hasan Akhund. The Taliban has appointed Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the ‘acting’ Prime Minister in the new Afghan government, with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mullah Abdus Salam being his deputies. The lesser know Mohammad Hasan Akhund who is on the...

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