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During a speech in the city’s Gandhi Maidan, Phoolan Devi had appealed to the activists of her outfit to educate their daughters and not make them cowards

The author of Why I am not a Hindu suggests in his usual rhetorical style that regiments of Brahmins, Banias and Jains, all of whom play no role in production, should be set up and sent to the warfront

The ideas of Dr B.R. Ambedkar and Ram Manohar Lohia have been the driving force for Dalit and lower-caste movements, respectively. It is strange that despite they being contemporaries and with similar agendas of fighting the caste system there has hardly been any attempts to find intersections in their thinking

The parties should realize that the government has been unable to deliver justice to the victims of oppression. Hence, as these downtrodden peoples continue to be at the receiving end of the Hindutva army’s excesses, amid failing caste politics, they will begin to rely on their own caste armies

FORWARD Press is known for its original ideas and for launching new discourses. … there is no reason why the Bhakti movement should not be subjected to fresh scrutiny. We are ready to host a debate on this issue in our coming issues

After Dr Ambedkar, Dalit-OBC politics has not been able to create a place for itself in the country’s polity. The main reason for this is that politicians and politics are far removed from the process of social change