Sambaiah Gundimeda

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Sambaiah Gundimeda

“Unfortunately for me I was born a Hindu Untouchable. It was beyond my power to prevent that, but I declare that it is within my power to refuse to live under ignoble and humiliating conditions. I solemnly assure you that I will not die a Hindu,”1 thundered Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at a conference in Yeola, near Nashik, Maharashtra, on October 13, 1935, marking a decisive break with Hinduism and its oppressive caste structure. Yet, it took him over two decades to take the final step.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy |Sambaiah Gundimeda

Following the Supreme Court’s validation last year of subclassifications within the SC and ST categories, the Telangana government, led by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, appointed a single-member judicial commission in November 2024. Headed by the retired Justice Shameem Akhtar, it was tasked with assessing intragroup disparities among various castes within the SC category and proposing a rational redistribution of reservation benefits.