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Nilratan Shende

The Elite Billing

Why do the political parties engaged in fighting for the rights of the marginalized are opposing “progressive women’s reservation bill’ and why congress, BJP and left have combined to vote for the bill? Why BJP which had mobilized people against reservation for OBCs, supporting it?  Is it just because that ‘they owe the bill to their [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Smaller States, Larger Democracies

The discourse around the formation of Telengana state has been largely by opinions that try to quantify or assess what would be qualitatively good or bad for Telengana and its people specifically and for the Andhra Pradesh state generally. I really fail to understand this debate if one recognizes the [...]

Damodar Prasad

Civil Society, Victim Industry and Keralam

“Chithralekha is a symbol and sign of the marginalization that Dalits face in modern Kerala”, notes the solidarity mission in its report after visiting Payyanur to ascertain the facts about the hoodlums stigmatizing and victimizing Chitralekha. It is salutary that some of the civil society activists and groups in Keralam after some [...]

Itty Abraham

T 20 Avatar in 3D

Okay, I admit it.  One of the compelling reasons to come and visit my parents during a brief one-week break in the middle of the semester was the possibility of watching an IPL 20-20 match in Chennai.  A long way to come perhaps, but as a once avid cricket fan [...]