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When Gandhism failed to address the evil of caste and squabbles within the RPI lay waste to Ambedkar’s legacy, a bunch of young Marathi writers turned to militant and politically astute activism. Abimanyu Kumar reviews ‘Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History’

The party’s justification for only a passing reference to these categories is that it does not want to spread casteism. But is there more to it than meets the eye?

History bears witness to the fact that Dalit Literature had emerged in Maharashtra well before 1950. Built on an ideological foundation substantiated by Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Dalit Literature is today said to be posing a challenge to mainstream literature. How did Dalit Literature undergo this metamorphosis? J.V. Pawar, a co-founder of Dalit Panthers, has the answer

Golwalkar’s idea of a nation was the ‘virat purusha’ made up of the four varnas and Savarkar described the ruthless Peshwa (Brahmin) rule as one of the most glorious periods, writes Nagesh Chaudhari

The portrayal of the idealism and humanism of the downtrodden in these films leaves more than a tingle of wellness, writes Lalitha Dhara

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If renaissance means bringing people from darkness to light, then the Bahujan heroes were the ones to usher in renaissance in India. This renaissance did not mean resurrection or reformation of Hinduism

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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

In his forthcoming book, ‘RSS aur Bahujan Chintan’, to be published by Forward Press, Kanwal Bharti exposes the double-faced RSS and its attempts to co-opt Ambedkar. He does so while reviewing booklets published by the organization as part of its Rashtriya Jagran Abhiyan. Here, Kanwal Bharti introduces the book