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Adivasis have to step up to protect the Constitutional rights of their community. Their representatives in the assemblies and Parliament over the past 70 years have failed them. Hiralal Alawa writes an open letter to the Adivasi youth  

That Ambedkar and Gandhi had their differences is well known. They had sharp differences of opinion but they continued to hold dialogues. Eventually, the Constitution became an endorsement of Ambedkar’s views. But apart from Ambedkar, there have been many other Bahujan thinkers whose insights are key to upliftment of deprived sections of society

Prakash Ambedkar, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s grandson and president of Republican Party of India Bahujan Mahasangh, was in Patna to participate in the ‘Save the Constitution, Save the Country’ rally. Here are excerpts from his conversation with senior journalist Anil Gupta

Adivasi author Gladson Dungdung writes prolifically on Adivasis’ struggles for their identity and on their existence. He tells Vidya Bhushan Rawat about the challenges facing his community

Prakash Ambedkar, president of the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, says all sections of society, including Dalits, are involved in the battle he has launched to save the Constitution

Instead of abolishing vacant posts, the government needs to examine why the posts haven’t been filled. Revisiting the ‘M. Nagaraj and Others versus Union of India’ case will be a good start, writes Haribhau Rathod

Former top bureaucrat P.S. Krishnan played a decisive role in the setting up of the Mandal Commission and implementation of its suggestions. He was the architect of the Special Component Plan for the Scheduled Castes. More recently, he has motivated the government to take several steps to improve the lot of the Backwards, Dalits and Adivasis and pointed out problems and challenges

If we had people like him at the helm of economic affairs, the 250,000-plus farmer suicides in the past 16 years may not have occurred, because he recognized that labour, capital and capital goods are all crucial to agricultural production in India

Which tendencies in Indian society are coming in the way of the fulfilment of Ambedkar’s dreams? IAS officer Narendra Kumar’s lists them out

If the Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill becomes law of the land without further amendments, the states will be deprived of their Constitutional rights and power to declare any class as socially and educationally backward within the state