In this week’s National Interest, I had said Jignesh Mevani could draw from Kanshi Ram’s playbook. Since there is much curiosity, the story of my first exposure to him and his political style
Sambhaji Bhide is a religious leader with all-party support, while Milind Ekbote is an ex-BJP corporator who grabs headlines for pushing a Hindutva agenda.
The Koregaon celebration by Dalits questions the dominant notion of nation and nationalism. This is making upper caste groups anxious, and they are calling it “anti-national”.
Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
Caste is the Poison which left India enslaved for last One Thousand year and open for invasions even before that. The fault lines of Caste has been successfully made into use by Afghan, Turks, British and later the Indian Black Brithishers in Dynasty for last 70 years. The Caste Formula was later hijacked by Malayam, lalu, Maya to successfully run their Pvl Ltd Companies while UP Bihar ruined much like Sub Saharan countries. The Caste System has been deliberately kept alive by vested Caste Politicians to come into power to be used as their trump card. So the result will be that the Caste System will prevail in India forever. Whenever there will be any attempt to dismantle this archaic Caste system, the Congress and its porterage like Lalu, malayam, or the new ones Jignesh, Alpesh or Hardik will continue to prop.
Caste is the Poison which left India enslaved for last One Thousand year and open for invasions even before that. The fault lines of Caste has been successfully made into use by Afghan, Turks, British and later the Indian Black Brithishers in Dynasty for last 70 years. The Caste Formula was later hijacked by Malayam, lalu, Maya to successfully run their Pvl Ltd Companies while UP Bihar ruined much like Sub Saharan countries. The Caste System has been deliberately kept alive by vested Caste Politicians to come into power to be used as their trump card. So the result will be that the Caste System will prevail in India forever. Whenever there will be any attempt to dismantle this archaic Caste system, the Congress and its porterage like Lalu, malayam, or the new ones Jignesh, Alpesh or Hardik will continue to prop.
Keep coming out with such vintage stories that make readers aware of the undercurrents of Indian polity in move.