Current Affairs
Union Budget 2024-25: SC, ST, and OBC welfare not a priority
A major concern is the underutilization of the budgets allocated to the relevant ministries and departments. Year after year, the actual expenditures have been lower than the budget estimates. This indicates not just the lack...
Maratha reservation stir has been anti-Phule-Ambedkarite from its birth
A very tragic incident took place in the year 2016. A Maratha girl was raped and murdered in Kopardi village of Ahmednagar district. The incident shook Maharashtra. Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, Muslims – every section of...
Hathras stampede: Caste and politics of a tragedy
Surajpal Singh alias Narayan Sakar Hari alias Bhole Baba is a Jatav by caste. Most of his devotees are either Jatavs or come from other Dalit castes and EBCs. Fourteen of the women killed in...
NEET designed to churn out doctors only from the upper class and castes and city dwellers
This year, 73 per cent of the successful candidates came from CBSE/NCERT curriculum while only 27 per cent were from schools with state board curriculums. By confining medical education to the urban rich, NEET is...
With the Constitution secured, there is much to thank V.P. Singh for
The Mandal reservation, which V.P. Singh ushered in, became the main protector of the Indian Constitution in the...
Why RSS is scapegoating Modi for failing to win a majority
The 2024 General Elections were important for Modi. But these elections were even more important for the RSS....
The intellectual bankruptcy of an upper-caste academia
The reason India has failed to produce quality research and transformative theories is that the upper-caste intellectuals tend...
General Elections 2024: Making sense of the Uttar Pradesh surprise
Under the circumstances and given the limited resources at their disposal, the SP and the Congress could have...
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