Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
SEPERATE ELECTORATE AS BABA SAHEB WANTED AND GIVEN BY BRITISHERS KNOWING THE ILL MOTIVE OF GANDHI, IS THE ONE AND ONLY SOLUTION TO ELECT SINCERE, COMMITED, HONEST LEADERS FROM OUR COMMUNITY. GANDHI TRIED TO FINISH DALITS RIGHT TO POWER, BJP HAS NEARLY DECIMATED CONGRESS, VERY SOON THERE WIL BE NO CONGRESS AND GANDHI IN INDIAN HISTORY, COURTESY BJP UNDER OUR MOST DYNAMIC LEADER INDIA HAS EVER SEEN SHRI.NARENDRA MODI JI.
The author is still stuck with antiquated notions for Indian politics from 20-30 years ago. How can he claim the BJP is an anti-Dalit or pro Upper Caste party when for at least since 2014 as per polling data they’ve been getting more Dalit votes than any other party in India? The author thinks ONLY non-Dalit voters decide who wins SC reserved seats.
Keeping in view party discipline, the reserved MPs can’t have their own agenda. The community should consolidate using religious and cultural platforms and invite these representatives. This may show good results.
Is there any need for a Dalit MP to speak on Dalit issues in Parliament. His/her seat is assured by the general voters and not the Dalit voters. At most, the seat will go to someone else from his political brotherhood. The Dalit MPs tread a tight rope. To utter a word in Parliament can be suicidal for him. Who will take that risk? In fact, non-Dalit MPs have the duty and responsibility to speak for Dalits. The real rivalry is between a Dalit and another Dalit. A fair analysis of the activities of the Dalit political leaders mentioned in the above article will verify this fact. It looks that Dalits are doing a disservice to Dr. Ambedkar. If a non-Dalit try to eulogize Dr. Ambedkar, the Dalits say that he is hijacking Dr. Ambedkar. Even if the Prime Minister of India declares that Dr. Ambedkar was a real Nation Builder, the Dalits doubt PM’s sincerity. Dalits have come a long way. More than the MPs, the Dalit Bureaucrats have to come forward. My personal experience is that for Dalits the non-Dalits are their well-wishers than their own brethren.
Sadly you have not accounted for Thol Thirumavalavan who is contesting from Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. He has been a vocal MP in the past, and he is easily the tallest leader in Tamil Nadu; vocal, articulate, well-read and a people’s person, he has raised standards of civic behaviour in the state. that as usual are not being taken note of.
More than anything else, he has galvanised a substantial section of young voters into supporting him, including from non-dalit communities.
I do wish that poll critics visit the South of India, to take note of all that has transpired here the last decade and more.
Dear Friend, for these Journalist If you are not Chamar cast, then he will not include them in dalit Leader it does not matter you are a good and vocal leader of dalit community, & for South Indian Dalit , he does not count them as a Dalit Leader, Because That leader does not belongs to BSP or mayawati. I am 200% sure he can not tell 5 dalit Leader of from South India.
The great Visionary Bharatha Rathna D.R.B.R.Ambedkar told long back , that the MPs elected from other parties will be stooges of the party and leader and will not raise voice for the Dalits. The Dalit MPs mentioned in the article are all stooges with self interest. This is not the only one what Baba Saheb told became true many more things he told and which people ridiculed have become true. The only leader then , now and forever for Dalits if Baba Saheb only.
The Serial Instigator cum liar (refer his earlier article on so-called privileges of brahmins) designated as “Sr Journallist” is at again. Inventing bogus issues and behaving as so-called dalit representative in the media. It seems there is a reservation in The Print for publishing such sectarian nonsense. Using his logic one can easily question, in the last fifty years, how many Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta MPs have opened their mouths for protection of Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta citizen rights.? Has a single MP (of any caste) ever opened his mouth against the caste atrocities against Brahmins in TN? What about Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta MPs passing laws like SCST Act to punish their own kith and kin?
@ Ramesh, Nice Response . NoBody Questions Multimillionaires Dalits / OBCs. NoBody Questions the Unsuccessful Reservations. NoBody Questions How Reservations have further Divided Society. The Author should Expose the Racket of the Creamy Layer of Dalits who still claim Reservations. The Author should also have the balls to Discuss Economic Criteria v/s Birth Criteria. Almost all Politicians across all Parties have only one agenda : SELF PROMOTION. What did the Great Kanshi Ram leave us ? A MULTI MILIONAIRE CORRUPT CHAMMAR KII BETI ?
Let, any Dalit be the representative of the members of Scheduled Caste, but it seems nobody had followed, the Hinduism as ordered by the Constitution ( Scheduled Caste) Order 1950, para 4, which states as *notwithstanding anything contained in para 2( only the caste or Dalit), no person who professes a religion different from Hinduism, shall be deemed to be a member of Scheduled Caste*.
The word Hinduism, mentioned in this Order is mere a word.
It seems both the word Hinduism and Dalit are different to each other.
With mere word Hindusm the Hinduism cannot be professed.
For clarification of this word,
Dr Ambedkar submitted Hindu Code Bill. I think so.
As this was not approved he resigned his Law Minister post.
As on date no Dalit MP has not taken similar step like this. They avail the Reservation.
It seems they satisfy themselves with this Word Hinduism alone.
It seems they are creating 5th Varna in Hinduism – against the wish of Dr Ambedkar.
Such a realistic analysis on political conditions of dalit how so call upper class leadership destroying our baba sahab dream. He always tried his best to make dalit contributions in Indian sociopolitical life. But there is need to make dalit peoples awake from sleep.
Good to see media houses like The Print is coming out with interesting subjects. I feel the only option is these 84 MPs to speak up only.. As long as the reservation exists, 84 seats will remain. The MPs should take the courage to speak at least to Dalit issues in which the other MPs may not be interested. What the current election shows is that many parties find it difficult to identify eligible Dalits to contest in the seats. So if a Dalit MP shows mettle, he or she is going to get a second term.
1 This is good analysis of Dalit politics. We know that there are many parties which claim to protect and further interests of Dalits. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Smt Mayawati, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) of Prakash Ambedkar, Republican Party of India (Ramdas Athavale faction) are three main political parties who claim to fight for the SC, ST & OBC communities. In the Southern States there are more. 2. Though Dalit and Dalit-centric parties claim to be working for welfare of their community, on account of castes and sub-castes among Dalits there is lack of coordination amongst these parties. 3. As I see it, there are two main issues or problems faced by Dalits today: (a) Job opportunities: in private sector they are scarce and they are increasing in the government sector too. (b)Dalits’ political voice is not as powerful as it should be essentially because they lack unity. My view is that leaders of these different Dalit political parties have to show magnanimity and remain united. They must be ready to do what is called ‘give and take’ with other parties too, and above all, shun opportunistic politics (which I consider is the basis of alliance of BSP & SP in Uttar Pradesh). 4. Further, I believe that in order to be able to be really effective in Lok Sabha and elsewhere, it is necessary for all these Dalit parties to do what is called Strengths Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities or SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis has to be followed by subsequent corrective action. Then only SWOT would be useful to make Dalits real contenders for a share of power-pie.
This article says that Dalit MP have no power and dalit have no choice to chose to their candidate ,this is the very bad situtation in current senerio so all should know
OUT OF 84 SC MP’S 46 FROM BJP
SEPERATE ELECTORATE AS BABA SAHEB WANTED AND GIVEN BY BRITISHERS KNOWING THE ILL MOTIVE OF GANDHI, IS THE ONE AND ONLY SOLUTION TO ELECT SINCERE, COMMITED, HONEST LEADERS FROM OUR COMMUNITY. GANDHI TRIED TO FINISH DALITS RIGHT TO POWER, BJP HAS NEARLY DECIMATED CONGRESS, VERY SOON THERE WIL BE NO CONGRESS AND GANDHI IN INDIAN HISTORY, COURTESY BJP UNDER OUR MOST DYNAMIC LEADER INDIA HAS EVER SEEN SHRI.NARENDRA MODI JI.
The author is still stuck with antiquated notions for Indian politics from 20-30 years ago. How can he claim the BJP is an anti-Dalit or pro Upper Caste party when for at least since 2014 as per polling data they’ve been getting more Dalit votes than any other party in India? The author thinks ONLY non-Dalit voters decide who wins SC reserved seats.
Keeping in view party discipline, the reserved MPs can’t have their own agenda. The community should consolidate using religious and cultural platforms and invite these representatives. This may show good results.
Is there any need for a Dalit MP to speak on Dalit issues in Parliament. His/her seat is assured by the general voters and not the Dalit voters. At most, the seat will go to someone else from his political brotherhood. The Dalit MPs tread a tight rope. To utter a word in Parliament can be suicidal for him. Who will take that risk? In fact, non-Dalit MPs have the duty and responsibility to speak for Dalits. The real rivalry is between a Dalit and another Dalit. A fair analysis of the activities of the Dalit political leaders mentioned in the above article will verify this fact. It looks that Dalits are doing a disservice to Dr. Ambedkar. If a non-Dalit try to eulogize Dr. Ambedkar, the Dalits say that he is hijacking Dr. Ambedkar. Even if the Prime Minister of India declares that Dr. Ambedkar was a real Nation Builder, the Dalits doubt PM’s sincerity. Dalits have come a long way. More than the MPs, the Dalit Bureaucrats have to come forward. My personal experience is that for Dalits the non-Dalits are their well-wishers than their own brethren.
Sadly you have not accounted for Thol Thirumavalavan who is contesting from Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. He has been a vocal MP in the past, and he is easily the tallest leader in Tamil Nadu; vocal, articulate, well-read and a people’s person, he has raised standards of civic behaviour in the state. that as usual are not being taken note of.
More than anything else, he has galvanised a substantial section of young voters into supporting him, including from non-dalit communities.
I do wish that poll critics visit the South of India, to take note of all that has transpired here the last decade and more.
Dear Friend, for these Journalist If you are not Chamar cast, then he will not include them in dalit Leader it does not matter you are a good and vocal leader of dalit community, & for South Indian Dalit , he does not count them as a Dalit Leader, Because That leader does not belongs to BSP or mayawati. I am 200% sure he can not tell 5 dalit Leader of from South India.
The great Visionary Bharatha Rathna D.R.B.R.Ambedkar told long back , that the MPs elected from other parties will be stooges of the party and leader and will not raise voice for the Dalits. The Dalit MPs mentioned in the article are all stooges with self interest. This is not the only one what Baba Saheb told became true many more things he told and which people ridiculed have become true. The only leader then , now and forever for Dalits if Baba Saheb only.
The Serial Instigator cum liar (refer his earlier article on so-called privileges of brahmins) designated as “Sr Journallist” is at again. Inventing bogus issues and behaving as so-called dalit representative in the media. It seems there is a reservation in The Print for publishing such sectarian nonsense. Using his logic one can easily question, in the last fifty years, how many Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta MPs have opened their mouths for protection of Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta citizen rights.? Has a single MP (of any caste) ever opened his mouth against the caste atrocities against Brahmins in TN? What about Brahmin/Rajput/Gupta MPs passing laws like SCST Act to punish their own kith and kin?
@ Ramesh, Nice Response . NoBody Questions Multimillionaires Dalits / OBCs. NoBody Questions the Unsuccessful Reservations. NoBody Questions How Reservations have further Divided Society. The Author should Expose the Racket of the Creamy Layer of Dalits who still claim Reservations. The Author should also have the balls to Discuss Economic Criteria v/s Birth Criteria. Almost all Politicians across all Parties have only one agenda : SELF PROMOTION. What did the Great Kanshi Ram leave us ? A MULTI MILIONAIRE CORRUPT CHAMMAR KII BETI ?
Let, any Dalit be the representative of the members of Scheduled Caste, but it seems nobody had followed, the Hinduism as ordered by the Constitution ( Scheduled Caste) Order 1950, para 4, which states as *notwithstanding anything contained in para 2( only the caste or Dalit), no person who professes a religion different from Hinduism, shall be deemed to be a member of Scheduled Caste*.
The word Hinduism, mentioned in this Order is mere a word.
It seems both the word Hinduism and Dalit are different to each other.
With mere word Hindusm the Hinduism cannot be professed.
For clarification of this word,
Dr Ambedkar submitted Hindu Code Bill. I think so.
As this was not approved he resigned his Law Minister post.
As on date no Dalit MP has not taken similar step like this. They avail the Reservation.
It seems they satisfy themselves with this Word Hinduism alone.
It seems they are creating 5th Varna in Hinduism – against the wish of Dr Ambedkar.
Such a realistic analysis on political conditions of dalit how so call upper class leadership destroying our baba sahab dream. He always tried his best to make dalit contributions in Indian sociopolitical life. But there is need to make dalit peoples awake from sleep.
Good to see media houses like The Print is coming out with interesting subjects. I feel the only option is these 84 MPs to speak up only.. As long as the reservation exists, 84 seats will remain. The MPs should take the courage to speak at least to Dalit issues in which the other MPs may not be interested. What the current election shows is that many parties find it difficult to identify eligible Dalits to contest in the seats. So if a Dalit MP shows mettle, he or she is going to get a second term.
1 This is good analysis of Dalit politics. We know that there are many parties which claim to protect and further interests of Dalits. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Smt Mayawati, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) of Prakash Ambedkar, Republican Party of India (Ramdas Athavale faction) are three main political parties who claim to fight for the SC, ST & OBC communities. In the Southern States there are more. 2. Though Dalit and Dalit-centric parties claim to be working for welfare of their community, on account of castes and sub-castes among Dalits there is lack of coordination amongst these parties. 3. As I see it, there are two main issues or problems faced by Dalits today: (a) Job opportunities: in private sector they are scarce and they are increasing in the government sector too. (b)Dalits’ political voice is not as powerful as it should be essentially because they lack unity. My view is that leaders of these different Dalit political parties have to show magnanimity and remain united. They must be ready to do what is called ‘give and take’ with other parties too, and above all, shun opportunistic politics (which I consider is the basis of alliance of BSP & SP in Uttar Pradesh). 4. Further, I believe that in order to be able to be really effective in Lok Sabha and elsewhere, it is necessary for all these Dalit parties to do what is called Strengths Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities or SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis has to be followed by subsequent corrective action. Then only SWOT would be useful to make Dalits real contenders for a share of power-pie.
This author should mention how many OBCs are there in the Parliament without reservations and what are they doing about protection for Dalits?
This article says that Dalit MP have no power and dalit have no choice to chose to their candidate ,this is the very bad situtation in current senerio so all should know