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Political dynasties are certainly unhealthy but individualism is no less harmful. When a single individual begins to oppress and dominate an entire party and starts imagining that he is as a thousand rupee note and everybody else is worth merely 5-10 rupees, then we know it is the time of lament for democracy, wrote senior journalist and author Rajkishore in his last post on his Facebook page

The pet dog of a Valmiki family barked at Jat youths and they retaliated with a naked display of barbarity. After this incident, more than 150 Valmiki families migrated from the village. Amid the din of the Gujarat Dalit movement, are you forgetting this horrific torture of Mirchpur, Haryana

In his assessment of both the victory of the Modi-led BJP as well as of the defeat of the bahujan parties he refuses to wear any tinted goggles – neither saffron nor green nor any shade of red – just an unwavering Phule-Ambedkar perspective. He certainly does not spare the Dalitbahujan political leaders