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The philosophy that desires to end poverty is akin to the philosophy that wishes to abolish untouchability. Just as notions of high and low castes have to be abolished for untouchability to be destroyed, for the abolition of poverty, notions that divide society into capitalists and labourers must be done away with. This is what Bhagat Singh believed, wrote Periyar

Ambedkar’s call to ‘educate, agitate, organize’ applied to himself, too. He followed up his 40-odd acerbic writings in ‘Mooknayak’ about the injustice in Indian society and the Freedom Movement, with the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha to mobilize the awakened masses. His journalism stands in sharp contrast to the media today that is subservient to the State, writes Goldy M. George 

If the managers of the companies in the public and private sectors are to succeed, they need to be educated in the various perspectives associated with our socially diverse backgrounds. Yet, our IIM faculties appear to be bent on remaining largely upper caste

Is the attitude of the media towards the happenings in tribal areas till the initial years of the 21st century not indicative of the fact that the communication structure that was put in place during the Santhal uprising was inherited by the mainstream media and it continued to serve the interests of everyone except the tribals?

Our daughters are being raped and killed. Our sons become rapists and are killed. Our grandchildren grow up as orphans. What would Phule tell the nation? “I shall quote a great saying of that Great Man of Truth: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Kanwal Bharti writes that the RSS wants the Bahujans to get sucked into the struggle for the temple and forget their objective of securing a share in the State. The temple is the best tool for this purpose

An obsession took possession of Krishnan when he was about 10 years old and kept driving him all his life. It was an obsession to take on the malevolent core of Indian society, Caste, which he called “India’s civilizational fault line”, writes V. Vasanthi Devi

Born into an upper-caste family in Kerala, P.S. Krishnan worked for upliftment of the Dalitbahujans during his time in the IAS. He proved that even a civil servant could play a significant role in the formulation and implementation of government policies for the wellbeing of the deprived. He passed away in Delhi on 10 November 2019

An extensively researched timeline of Dr Ambedkar’s life is not yet available. Here, Lokesh Kumar tries to fill this void in the literature on the man who studied inequality in Indian society to the minutest detail and fought to remove it

In 2006, Hindu upper-caste men dominated the media. They were about 8% of India’s population but among the key decision-makers of the national media their share was as high as 71%