Mukesh Kumar Bairva मुकेश कुमार बैरवा

Disconcertingly, the government, on the one hand, swiftly introduced 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill in Parliament to grant 10 per cent reservation for poor savarnas and, on the other hand, deprived Dalitbahujans of their constitutionally enshrined benefits

The attempts to replace the word ‘Dalit’ with ‘Bahujan’ and the recommendation of Delhi University standing committee on academic matters for removing three books by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd from the postgraduate political science syllabus, raise disturbing questions. Mukesh Kumar Bairva explores the issues and the politics surrounding these decisions

The attempts to replace the word ‘Dalit’ with ‘Bahujan’ and the recommendation of Delhi University standing committee on academic matters for removing three books by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd from the postgraduate political science syllabus, raise disturbing questions. Mukesh Kumar Bairva explores the issues and the politics surrounding these decisions

The fact that the police watched silently Dalit men being beaten up for skinning a dead cow sends a chill down our spine. It reminds us of Ambedkar’s apprehensions about the implementation of a Constitution that was “more enlightened than the society it was drafted for”