Established Dalit leadership is not opposing the CAA, and misadventures of Chandrashekhar Azad will have little implications on the sentiments of Dalits.
Dalits say they will convert to Islam in phases. The decision comes weeks after a wall, built to keep them separated from OBCs, collapsed, killing 17 people.
B.R. Ambedkar’s vision of annihilation of caste and building inter-caste harmony can be achieved only by giving Dalits and tribal people what belongs to them.
A field survey conducted by Centre for Policy Research, University of Texas and UC Berkely tracked changes in open defecation in rural north India in the last five years.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
The policy was initially announced for ten years, although long historical wrongs cannot be redressed overnight. However, seventy years is three generations, by this stage a programme for gradual phase out ought to have been discernible. Instead, reservations continue to spread, like Calcutta’s famous banyan tree. The sensible 50% cap mandated by the apex court, striking a balance between merit and equity / social justice, has been overwhelmed by recent inclusions, including those for dominant castes like Marathas who are at the apex of the state’s power pyramid. Difficult to support reservation for the economically less well off people belonging to the “ forward “ castes. Anything goes, when a tough election looms. 2. Normally, a sensitive issue like this, which can create social tensions, ought to be dealt with by the executive and the legislature. However, if they remain in thrall to electoral compulsions, the apex court should not feel diffident. It should look after the interests of those whom professional politicians are not treating with fairness.
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Dynamics of democracy should determine reservation policies. You can’t leave it to an arbitrator.
Most of these commentators are driven by their own prejudices, some even not speaking objectively and factually.
The policy was initially announced for ten years, although long historical wrongs cannot be redressed overnight. However, seventy years is three generations, by this stage a programme for gradual phase out ought to have been discernible. Instead, reservations continue to spread, like Calcutta’s famous banyan tree. The sensible 50% cap mandated by the apex court, striking a balance between merit and equity / social justice, has been overwhelmed by recent inclusions, including those for dominant castes like Marathas who are at the apex of the state’s power pyramid. Difficult to support reservation for the economically less well off people belonging to the “ forward “ castes. Anything goes, when a tough election looms. 2. Normally, a sensitive issue like this, which can create social tensions, ought to be dealt with by the executive and the legislature. However, if they remain in thrall to electoral compulsions, the apex court should not feel diffident. It should look after the interests of those whom professional politicians are not treating with fairness.