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On Occasion of Marathi Divas – Mother Tongue and it’s Role in Education.
Am not really among those who exhibit unwarranted pride in their mother tongue. In fact, I am a strong votary of making English as a medium of instructions in all the Government and Private Primary…
Reconciling Two Visions of Self Transformation and Social Engagement – 30 Verses of Vasubandhu
Buddhism is widely categorized and further sub-categorized into many schools and often it leads to confusions among the minds of the people as to what constitutes Buddhism. To look at the divisions…
BJP and Congress – Two Sides of the Same Hindutva Coin
It appears that not much has changed in terms of policies since the BJP/RSS government came to power before four years. It is a pure politics of keeping the hegemony of one class over another. The …
Can there be a set of public policies to annihilate the caste system?
The caste system in India is the longest surviving system of slavery which Babasaheb Ambedkar defined as the system of graded inequality. This human inhuman institution is many centuries old. It is…
No Value of Human Life – Why Lynching is Normal in India?
In Kerala, a tribal man of 27 named Madhu was lynched publicly because he stole rice. The man was beaten up by people and he succumbed to death very soon. The ordeal that this tribal man had gone t…
RSS Controlling NDA Government is a Murder of Indian Democracy
In the democracy, the party that wins the majority of seats form the governments. In the parliamentary democracy, the elected members exercise power. The members are elected through electoral proce…
From the Hell of Caste to Sukhavati
The practice of untouchability is outlawed by the constitution of India. It is still practised all over India in different forms and sites. The practice of untouchability is the oldest system of de…
RSS in JNU – Flying Vedic Planes in 21st Century Anarchist Milieu
The RSS is arranging a science conference in JNU and the topic is how all the modern discoveries and inventions were already present in the Vedas, Vedangas, and Puranas before the West discovered t…
Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dalits and Question of Caste Discrimination
There are around 12,000 villages in Punjab and according to one report, there are around 8,000 small-big deras in Punjab. Caste divides and discrimination has led Dalits as well as others to form d…
Psycho-analysis of Caste
It is not reasonable to think of caste system in the metaphor of a ladder with up and down ends. High and low are metaphors and embodied metaphors. They are linguistic traps which also conditions t…
Dalit Women – At the Centre of Inhuman Discrimination
Many empirical studies have been produced by the renowned institutions to prove how the caste system creates a vicious cycle of poverty and discrimination that affects the people at the lower rungs…
Are “Tribals” New Great Game in Indian Politics?
The Modi Government is creating museums in the five BJP-led states. It has drawn a concept note and the plan will be implemented in the five BJP-ruled states by the Central Ministry for Tribals. Th…
India’s Devil’s Chessboard – Anti-National Alliance of Nazis (Brahmin-supremacists), Intelligence Bureau, RSS, and Corporate
The Devil’s chessboard is an insightful book written on how the USA was hijacked by the deep state and how it undermined democracy in the USA. The repeat of the same is taking place in India when t…
Privatsing Public Sector Banks Means Handing Over the Keys to Thieves
In 1969, 14 banks were nationalized by former prime minister Indira Gandhi. The argument was that the banking sector was not working rapidly enough in spreading credit availability across the state…
Caste System and the Cycle of Corruption
Corruption is defined as using public office for the private gains. The word public is therefore important. Everything in India must be thought through this framework of the republic, for India is …