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Should the newspapers have referred to the murderer of hundreds of poor people as a martyr? This difference in nomenclature gives ample indication about where the sympathies of all those involved in the writing of news stories lie

If this battle gains ground, it is bound to pose a major challenge to the upper-caste domination of rural society, culture and levers of power. The need is to transform the character of this struggle from a Gandhian to the one patterned on the battles of Phule and Ambedkar