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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 [...]

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Will Mr.Rahul Gandhi marry a Dalit girl?

Rahul Gandhi has instructed congress workers to “spend a day with Dalit household” for commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. This approach underlines the party’s assumption that something is wrong with the dalits. “Lets go and work for their betterment.” How many of them say, “let’s go and visit upper castes and change [...]

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Blind Cities, Blind Systems

Couple of months ago, a visually challenged person, Mr. Chandrakant Sasane , 34, a post graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, met  with a tragic “accident” at Thane railway station while he was alighting from a suburban train. He fell off to the opposite track and a train arrived, all at once. [...]

Nilratan Shende

Beyond Racism

Just One Point

One would like to ask, why do celebrities and media are touchy about racial discrimination? How do they manage to turn blind eye to the escalating brutal caste discrimination in India? Take for instance, Mr Amitabh Bachan who turned down a doctoral [...]

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Monumental Cultural Capital

Ambedkar Park : Photos Courtesy: Luisa Steur & INSIGHT

BSP supremo and CM of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati is being vehemently criticized by Congress and media for “construction of statues and ignoring core development issues that UP has been facing”. Public interest litigations have been filed in the Supreme Court and Allahabad high [...]