BR Ambedkar's warning against taking the road called the 'Grammar of Anarchy' is often quoted to send protesting crowds home. It should not be. He was not abolishing the citizen's voice.
In the absence of economic rights, citizens do not attach much importance to political rights. This makes it difficult for democracy to strike deep roots, wrote VB Karnik in 1979.
In September 1943, Dr B R Ambedkar delivered a speech at a trade union workers’ study camp in Delhi, reflecting on parliamentary democracy, trade unionism, and the labouring classes.
I have often felt that success for a Dalit person comes with a strange moral demand: be proof without being inconvenient. That is an impossible assignment.
Jyotiba Phule went beyond parochial constructs to empower the masses to reclaim their sovereignty by seeking and rejecting slavery. This discourse was later taken up by BR Ambedkar.
The award is for scholarly work that explores interaction between ‘American Philosophy’ and ‘Thinkers’ in India, China, Greater Asia, and other countries that remain understudied.
Sabarimala reference will ultimately decide whether 1948 constitutional compromise between religious freedom and social reform still holds in India where religion is both intensely personal and fiercely political
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Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.
At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.
2029 is far away. By then, freebies, a conflict with a neighbour, supplicant media’s praises and the general public’s gold fish-like attention span will ensure everything will have been forgotten. One just needs to look at the last ten years: demonitisation, the sudden Covid lockdown and ensuing incompetence, way protesters (CAA, olympic wrestlers, farmers, students, unemployed) have been treated, Covid deaths from UP assembly election duty and Mahakumbh, electoral bond scam, falling bridges, leaking temples, stolen donations, compliant Election Commission, ED raids… Nothing seems to stick. They still end up victorious.
2029 is far away. By then, freebies, a conflict with a neighbour, supplicant media’s praises and the general public’s gold fish-like attention span will ensure everything will have been forgotten. One just needs to look at the last ten years: demonitisation, the sudden Covid lockdown and ensuing incompetence, way protesters (CAA, olympic wrestlers, farmers, students, unemployed) have been treated, Covid deaths from UP assembly election duty and Mahakumbh, electoral bond scam, falling bridges, leaking temples, stolen donations, compliant Election Commission, ED raids… Nothing seems to stick. They still end up victorious.