Tagged: Dalits

Who Will Listen to Para’s Silent Screams?

I read about this shameful and horrifying rape in Tehelka’s recent issue and it filled me with rage and a deep sense of frustration…Rage at what happened and the indifference of police authorities and...

Is India now officially “Hindu”?

…Wall Street Journal thinks so. And if the eminent WSJ says so (in a title, no less), it must be true, right? During last weekend, came across this half-baked opinion passing off as a...

A fresh look at Reservations and Quotas – Part II

A few weeks ago, I wrote a detailed post examining the various issues with the current system of reservations and quotas. In that analysis, I identified the following serious problems: The present system does...