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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Kumar |Cynthia Stephen |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Professor Vivek Kumar’s latest book evaluates B.R. Ambedkar’s ideas for the building of India as a modern nation-state, and his contributions to it when the idea was still nascent. It highlights the erasure of Ambedkar’s contributions in key areas of governance, leadership, and policymaking, which were neither acknowledged nor studied by his contemporaries or Indian scholars in history, economics, law, philosophy, religion, politics, and sociology.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Renu Singh |Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen
Amid the twin issues of Caste Census and Sub-categorization of reservation of SCs/STs and ‘creamy layer’ among SCs, it must be remembered that caste issues have always been tweaked and twisted by politicians for their windfall gains to fortify their political positions in the name of social justice. Sub-Categorization of ReservationWhy sub- categorization within SCs on the first place?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen |MA Krishna
The one-man committee of Justice K Chandru handed over its 600-page report to the the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin (second from Right) on June 18, 2024. Three months after that, there is still no news whether it was officially ‘accepted’ by the government, presented to the legislature, nor there is any Action Taken Report. The DMK conducted its platinum jubilee event on Sep 17th commemorating the party’s 75th anniversary.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dhiraj Singha |Dinkar Kapoor |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen
How does the moral obligation to ‘pay back to society’ manifest in the lives of early-career researchers (ECRs) from the Dalit community? While this obligation is imperative for social justice, and they attempt to contribute to society either through political activism or creative expression, this often appears as a source of anxiety and guilt, especially among those who are already grappling with low self-esteem and self-doubt.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Cynthia Stephen |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vaishna Roy
While Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s studies in, and connections with, Columbia University are well-known and much celebrated, not many know that he also studied for a masters in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in London. In fact, his doctoral work in economics and finance at LSE was instrumental in the setting up of the Central banking mechanism now known as the Reserve Bank of India.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen |MA Krishna
The caste system in India, a rigid social hierarchy that classifies people into different groups based on birth, has long been a source of inequality and discrimination. Despite numerous efforts to address and dismantle this system, including religious reforms, social movements, legal changes, and modern interventions, caste-based discrimination persists.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Cynthia Stephen |Nirupama Subramanian |Vaishna Roy
Karnataka has always been an outlier in national politics. In south India, it is the only State that does not have a strong regional party. The national parties, the Congress and the BJP, have ruled Karnataka alternatively for several decades. In the tumultuous post-Emergency election in 1977, Indira Gandhi was defeated in her traditional seat of Rae Bareli by Raj Narain of the Janata Party.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com | Cynthia Stephen |Garima Prasher
Citizens post online petition opposing proposed whitetopping of MG Road as ‘downsides of project outweigh benefits’ Whitetopping 2.2-km stretch will cost Rs 44 croreMahatma Gandhi Road has not gone down well with Bengalureans and civic experts. A group of citizens have now come together and started an online petition against the proposal. They say the idea behind the petition is to get the MG Road whitetopping project scrapped immediately.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Iftikhar Gilani |Talmiz Ahmad |Salam Abu Sharar |Cynthia Stephen
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi, perhaps the most visible face of Palestine after the late Yasser Arafat, was the official spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A Palestinian Christian, she represented Jerusalem in the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996 and was re-elected in 2006. In 2020, Ashrawi resigned in protest against the Palestinian Authority’s decision to renew security coordination with Israel.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Talmiz Ahmad |Iftikhar Gilani |Salam Abu Sharar |Cynthia Stephen
Nearly three weeks into the war, our senses are benumbed by statistics constantly updated in media reports: 1,405 Israelis killed in the first attacks, 364 of them security personnel; about 1,500 Hamas fighters of the 2,500 who had infiltrated Israel from Gaza killed; about 200 Israelis held hostage by Hamas; over 6,000 Palestinians, 2,500 of them children, killed in Israeli bombardments in Gaza,.
