In Remaking the Citizen for New Times, Deepa Sreenivas explores how Amar Chitra Katha influenced the national consciousness of young readers in a conservative direction.
According to Bihar caste survey, 9.98% of Hindu 'upper caste' population has migrated out of the state, depleting their voting power. Of OBCs, 5.39% have migrated, and of EBCs, 3.9%.
As a practising doctor, I discovered large question marks on claims of a trustful patient-doctor relationship in the past. The routine dehumanisation of underprivileged patients remains a rarely mentioned topic.
Speaking at the B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, the Supreme Court judge says elite castes must ‘break free’ from the past and confer respect to the marginalised.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana have adopted a set of measures that provide preferential schemes for Brahmins, which only serves to invert caste inequality upside down.
Melbourne University scholars write about routine brandishing of 'upper caste' culture, which reproduces inequalities and makes them dominant representation of a national culture.
BJP leaders welcome steps for OBC, SC and ST communities, but say general category is being neglected and a commission should be formed to address their complaints and grievances.
From Kilvenmani massacre in 1968 to the Chunduru massacre in 1991 to the Khairlanji atrocity in 2006, Dalits have been vainly hoping to access legal justice in India.
Upper castes in the Hathras village even say the Dalit woman was killed by her own family, and that the accused Thakur men are being framed under SC/ST Act for money.
A ‘review’ of India’s reservation system can be undertaken. But the solution involves looking into the theories propounded by John Rawls, Ambedkar, and Gandhi.
Since 1979, Iran has used the Palestinian issue as a façade for its regional agenda to oppose American diplomacy, the Western world, and the existence of Israel.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
Academics like Deepa, Sudipta and others of their ilk thrive on the caste system. If Hindu society were to successfully eradicate this evil practice, they would be left with nothing to do.
Their interest is not in exterminating this absolutely horrible practice, but in keeping Hindus divided. If Hindu society successfully overcomes the caste problem it will be a much more united front thereby posing a significant challenge to pseudo-seculars like these academics. Their interest lies in keeping Hindus divided and the best way to do so is to perpetuate the caste system. As long as caste system exists, it will be easy to divide Hindus and pit one caste against another.
The greatest beneficiaries of this will be the aggressively proselytizing religions such as Islam and Christianity.
People like Deepa Srinivas are the reason why there will never be unity in our society. Because they will pull out all stops to ensure that we remain divided into various castes and classes.
The existence of caste in Hinduism is extremely unfortunate. And genuine attempts have been made over the last 300 years to eradicate the problem. To a large extent we have been successful as caste lines in modern India are not as rigid as they used to be in colonial India. In fact, inter-caste marriages are common nowadays.
But the issue with people like Ms. Srinivas and Mr. Sudipta Kaviraj is that this progress is just not acceptable to them. They are worried that if caste were to become irrelevant some day, what would be their own relevance?
Such people – “academics” rather – would write reams and reams about caste but do nothing to fight this social evil. Why? Because they and their “scholarship” remains relevant only so long as this pernicious evil of caste persists in our society.
These vultures feed upn the divisions of Hindu society. In a way they assist the Abrahamic religions like Islam and Christianity to attack Hinduism and convert millions of poor lower-caste people.
No wonder, they see Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharishi, etc. as threats.
Academics like Deepa, Sudipta and others of their ilk thrive on the caste system. If Hindu society were to successfully eradicate this evil practice, they would be left with nothing to do.
Their interest is not in exterminating this absolutely horrible practice, but in keeping Hindus divided. If Hindu society successfully overcomes the caste problem it will be a much more united front thereby posing a significant challenge to pseudo-seculars like these academics. Their interest lies in keeping Hindus divided and the best way to do so is to perpetuate the caste system. As long as caste system exists, it will be easy to divide Hindus and pit one caste against another.
The greatest beneficiaries of this will be the aggressively proselytizing religions such as Islam and Christianity.
People like Deepa Srinivas are the reason why there will never be unity in our society. Because they will pull out all stops to ensure that we remain divided into various castes and classes.
The existence of caste in Hinduism is extremely unfortunate. And genuine attempts have been made over the last 300 years to eradicate the problem. To a large extent we have been successful as caste lines in modern India are not as rigid as they used to be in colonial India. In fact, inter-caste marriages are common nowadays.
But the issue with people like Ms. Srinivas and Mr. Sudipta Kaviraj is that this progress is just not acceptable to them. They are worried that if caste were to become irrelevant some day, what would be their own relevance?
Such people – “academics” rather – would write reams and reams about caste but do nothing to fight this social evil. Why? Because they and their “scholarship” remains relevant only so long as this pernicious evil of caste persists in our society.
These vultures feed upn the divisions of Hindu society. In a way they assist the Abrahamic religions like Islam and Christianity to attack Hinduism and convert millions of poor lower-caste people.
No wonder, they see Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharishi, etc. as threats.