Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Exactly…
Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Your children are not your children; They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though…
Need Proportional representation at all level to democratize Indian power structure | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The quota bill providing 10% reservation for the ‘general’ category of people has been passed by the Rajya Sabha yesterday with opposition parties…
Barbarism normalised | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The incidents of lynching, killing and abusing the opponents particularly the Muslims in India have become a norm and the country seems to be either satisfied with justifying things or calling these events as aberrations. Every time such incidents happen and…
Republic of Caste supremacists
‘Democracy day’ was being celebrated yesterday on social media where political leaders ‘greeted’ their ‘bhakts’ and hailing India as one of the ‘biggest’ democracies of the world. Things are moving so fast these days that it has become too…
Korean Anniversary: Confidence-building Measures Still Needed
Sunday 9 September was the 70th anniversary of the creation of North Korea. As has been usual in recent years there was a very highly-structured ceremonial parade. Such mass events are used to convey policy priorities to its citizens and to the outside…
Chronicling the dismantling of the ‘Idea of India’
The recent debate around ‘no confidence’ in the Loksabha (21st July 2018); brought to fore the policies of the Modi sarkar. Modi Sarkar has failed the country on most of the counts, control over corruption, bringing back black money hoarded in foreign…
When Nehru helped an Ambedkarite Sanskrit Scholar get a job
This article is not attempt to portray Nehru as an Ambedkarite, nor is an attempt to project him as a champion of the Dalit rights as I can’t verify the statement from any other sources except that the beneficiary Mrs Kumud Pawde shared with me when I had…
Congress can learn from the mistakes of Rajiv Gandhi | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
There is no doubt that Rajiv Gandhi was a modern looking young leader of the country yet we must not miss out the fact that his party paid a heavy price for the mistakes he committed. In 1989, he started his campaign from Ayodhya promising Ram Rajya. The doors…
Liberal Dogmatism | Irfan Engineer
One must agree with the advice of Ramchandra Guha (‘Liberals, sadly’, IE, 20/3/18) that the “liberals must have courage to take on both Hindu and Muslim communalists”. Guha misses many Muslim liberals who take on both communalists. We could name dozens…