Rich and powerful "fraudsters" like Satyam's Ramalinga Raju will get away; the down and out like Satyam Babu, a poor dalit wrongly convicted for a murder he did not commit, will rot in jail. Caste...
Margin Speak
In the 1880s, in colonial India a Faizabad court disallowed the building of a Ram temple on the Ram chabutara, but now, a high court in independent India, swearing by the lofty ideals of the...
With the kind of scandals and mishaps that have brought the Commonwealth Games to the brink of being rendered a flop show, the entire elitist exercise of seeking superpower status has boomeranged,...
Nothing ever happens in the country to those who have pelf and power even as millions get pushed to the margins. Those like Natha in Peepli Live are enveloped in the peace of the dead!
While commuting the death sentence of the six convicts in the Khairlanji dalit killings case to imprisonment for 25 years, the high court did not think there was a caste angle or that any planning...
If castes are counted in the 2011 census, it will be the second biggest blow to the emancipation project of the oppressed, the first being the Mandal reservations.
Caste venom is embedded in the body politic of this country. The BJP occasionally spews it; the Congress successfully conceals it.
The idea of Maharashtra had nothing to do with Marathi parochialism. The radical tinge that resonated in the slogan "Samyukta Maharashtra, Socialist Maharashtra" implied that the new state was to...
