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TopicDalit History Month 2021

Topic: Dalit History Month 2021

ThePrint’s Opinion team launched the Dalit History Month series for the first time in 2018 to not only commemorate Babasaeb Ambedkar’s birthday but also to foreground hidden stories, voices and catalysing issues in the community. You can read the articles here. We now bring you the second edition.

A Dalit lead who isn’t honour killing or inter-caste love victim. It takes a Neeraj Ghaywan

Ravikiran Shinde -
Bollywood is now comfortable with portraying drugs, gender parity, crime and sexuality, but still finds Dalit characters too hot to handle.

How Instagram reels is a mirror to modern casteism in India

Anurag Minus Verma -
Instagram Reels feels like you've entered an expensive restaurant where you can be mocked for your clothes, accent, and pronunciation.

Kausalya Baisantri, an early Dalit woman autobiographer, fought a ‘double curse’

Siddhesh Gautam -
Kausalya Baisantri was an educator and activist who reached the voice of Dalit women to then Indian President Giani Zail Singh.

Meet M. Nagloo, India’s first Dalit hotelier who was famous among British, US travellers

Chinnaiah Jangam -
M. Nagloo rose from obscurity to become a prominent figure in late 19th century. His biography, written by his son, is perhaps the first Dalit biography written in English.

New Dalit women autobiographies are opening up private, intimate spaces, rewriting history

K. Kalyani -
From Yashica Dutt to Sumitra Mehrol, autobiographies & memoirs by Dalit-Bahujan women have a unique position in centering their experiences.

Ambedkar said tyranny of majority is no democracy. Indians must read him again

Yogendra Yadav -
Don’t just celebrate Ambedkar’s birthday. Follow the democracy he envisioned for India.

Why Ambedkar changed on separate electorate. His shift was strategic not voluntary

Arvind Kumar -
Ambedkar favoured communal representation but had serious objections to a separate communal electorate being the best way to achieve it.

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Opinion

From populism to productivity—why the Budget 2026 makes a structural turn

Mukesh Butani -
The Budget proposals seek to balance sustained high economic growth with fiscal discipline and structural transformation.

Budget 2026 squarely puts manufacturing at the centre of India’s growth strategy

Budget 2026 is deliberately boring. Given the global climate, it’s a smart decision

Economy

Andhra Pradesh missing from Budget spotlight, why Chandrababu Naidu’s still happy

Prasad Nichenametla -
Sitharaman in the 2026-27 Budget has shifted focus away from Amaravati and Polavaram. But TDP is confident about leveraging allocations to accelerate Andhra’s 'next phase of growth'.

Defence

10X Budget beef-up for Intelligence Bureau capex, after Pahalgam & Red Fort terror attacks

Mayank Kumar -
After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr. 

National Interest

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

Shekhar Gupta -
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.

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