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Jan 19, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Kanwal Bharti |Suresh Khairnar |K S Chalam |Subhash Gatade
I read in the newspaper that some Dalit students in Banaras had organized a program to burn Manusmriti some days ago, and all of them are in jail. I don’t understand why Dalits do such stupid things. They follow Dr. Ambedkar, but they forget that the circumstances of that time were different. Dr. Ambedkar saw Manusmriti as Hindu separatism. How are Dalits seeing it today? If they consider themselves Hindus, then why are they opposing Manusmriti?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
epw.in | K S Chalam
Andhra Pradesh was among the first states to implement land reforms, with the conditional grant of millions of acres to the poor, with D Form pattas to Dalits and others. In recent years, the government has gradually diminished the importance of these reforms, enacting laws in 2023 that facilitate the appropriation of land from Dalits and the poor by relaxing clauses in the 1977 act.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Manas Jena |Vidya Bhushan Rawat |ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam
The Supreme Court judgement on 1st August 2024 by 7 judge constitution bench in a 6:1 majority judgement on state of Punjab v.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidya Bhushan Rawat |ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta
The Supreme Court Judgement on Sub Classification of Scheduled Caste Reservation has rightly been criticized for transgressing in venturing into areas which actually were not part of petition. Apart from it, the lectures of ‘morality’ and ‘ethics by various judges particularly speaking about ‘creamy layer’ only look hollow the way judges so vehemently defend their own system of selection process, named as collegium system, in judiciary.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta |Shamsul Islam
Reservation has always been an issue of debate in India. The majority of Hindus remain opposed to it without having understood the necessity of Reservation for the socially and economically backward Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). The chief architect of Indian constitution Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Dr.B. R. Ambedkar raised this demand and achieved it despite several hurdles. Hindus are responsible for the wretched conditions of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta |Shamsul Islam
The recent Supreme Court’s decision favouring sub-categorization within SC reservation is “disappointing,” says Ambedkarite scholar and Dalit rights activist Dr. Umakant in interview conducted by Abhay Kumar in New Delhi on Saturday (August 3). Explaining his view, Dr. Umakant said that reservation was given to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) with the realization that due to socio-educational and cultural backwardness, certain communities had remained outside the mainstream.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta |Shamsul Islam |Subhash Gatade
The nexus between judiciary and Parliament is manifested whenever there is a compromise on the social outcome that benefits both the parties equally. Otherwise, there will be tension both in the Parliament and on the benches. There are several occasions where the Parliament has agreed and kept silent when the Judiciary dragged its feet in to legislative functions like making Law for the appointment of Judges for the apex Court.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sandeep Banerjee |Stan Cox |Binoy Kampmark |K S Chalam
For several weeks farmers in France were very angry, and in a normal French way they displayed their anger with full vigour. Last week they selected a day and on that day they blocked all ways leading to and going out from Lyon, the largest centre after Paris. Here is a photo showing roadblocks on both sides. Angry farmers have called for a seige of Paris from 14:00 (France Time) this Monday.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | K S Chalam |P J James |Manas Jena |D Albert
We are meeting today, the day that signifies this convergence of Law and Economics in the form of adopting the Constitution of India 74 years ago in 1949. The person who was largely responsible for this wonderful event was Dr.B.R.Ambedkar was a symbol of the unity of Economics and Law in modern India; he had two Ph.Ds in Economics from two different countries and Bar-at-Law from Grays Inn in 1923.
