For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Istikhar Ali The #JusticeMakers Mela at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur, held on 6 December 2025, unfolded on a date that remains a raw wound in India’s political memory. It is a day when two sharply contrasting histories converge: the Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Dr B.R. Ambedkar—the architect of constitutional democracy—and the anniversary of the …
On March 4, 2020, hundreds of Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim and Christian minority groups and leaders from different parts of India assembled in the country’s capital to condemn and peacefully protest the imposition of unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act through the implementation of the NRC and NPR, countrywide. The BJP’s election manifesto in the general elections …
Dushyant Yadav The Assam NRC draft has jerked up a catch-22 situation in India. Citizenship has become the navel of our Socio-Political discourse of late and it has erected a new debate which has seemingly seduced every major political entity of our country. While some are vehemently against the deflowering of Indian territory, the …
(This is the second part of the article ‘The compulsive need to oppose reservations’, continued from here) Kuffir What does Pratap Bhanu Mehta really want? He wants ‘alternative paradigms‘ other than caste based reservations to be considered. Why? To build a sense of ‘common citizenship’. His worry is ‘we are also about to do that to …