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For the first instalment of the series, ‘Untold stories of Shudra-Atishudra Awakening’, Kanwal Bharti delves into the history of India’s Hindi heartland

Recently, Kanwal Bharti posted a few Raginis on Facebook. He has written and sung them himself. What kind of restlessness and need forced an established author to turn to singing? Siddharth tries to answer the question.

The State’s focus on Dalits may have created the rift between the two potential social allies against Brahmanism. But political parties espousing social justice have failed in addressing the question of development among the backward and Dalit castes. This has left most of these castes desperately looking for growth opportunities, and the right wing has smelt opportunity to draw these castes to itself

FP promoted the concept of Bahujan both in the fields of literature and politics. Its very first issue created a stir. It launched a comprehensive debate on the concept of Bahujans, which was instrumental in broadening the narrow discourse