Society
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By Martin Macwan |
‘Dalit’ is a popular identity in India as it is in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other parts of the world. Further, ‘…
By Ghanshyam Shah |
Dominant peasant castes occupying significant space in the economy and polity in their respective States are not giving…
By Arun Maira |
There was great uncertainty in 1999 about the outcome of India’s national election and concern that India’s development…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The SIT constituted by the Karnataka government deserves praise for getting closer to cracking the conspiracy of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
However, the real strength and appeal of these messages is more in the way everyday people can relate to, practice and…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s female labour force participation rate (LFPR) has fallen steeply in the past thirteen years. This is the ratio…
By Ajit Ranade |
On March 6, more than 10,000 farmers set off on a silent march from Nashik to Mumbai. This march was called by the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
No amount of effort will yield results when the mind is beset with all the wrong notions and ideas, aired freely and…
By Ajit Ranade |
Inequality cannot be remedied merely by depending on the goodwill and moral compulsions of the very rich. We have to…
By Arun Maira |
India’s history is a composition of many histories. Any attempt to impose a single vision of India’s history is a fool’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
While it is gratifying to see an obnoxious media person being caught out and go down, there is the larger and more…
By Haresh Jagtiani |
Chipping away at the periphery of a person’s lifestyle would be the surest way to strike at the core of his being. And…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
My idea of The Hindvasi travels back to days I was a school kid and the paper came home but only on a Sunday, if memory…