Dalit
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Society
S Anand
Profiles S Anand, whose publishing house Navayana takes its name from Ambedkar’s Buddhism and publishes books against caste prejudice, using quoted coverage of its awards and links to earlier Brown…
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The patron saint of the neo-Hindus
Responding to Pankaj Mishra’s ‘neo-Hindus’, the poster argues that Shudras and Dalits voting BJP is not simply false consciousness: the upper castes, it says, have lost control of the RSS…
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Politics
Save Our Servants (leaders)
A comment on Andhra Pradesh’s last vote as a united state, with extracts from a Dalit Christian activist on church leaders’ charter of demands to the parties; the poster sees…
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Politics
Muslim Brahmin axis rides high (on elephant back)
The BSP gives more Lok Sabha tickets to Brahmins and Muslims. The poster welcomes this Dalit-led coalition as an inverted pyramid that must trouble caste-hustlers.
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Politics
Dalit boy dumps Obama, picks up AK-272
A profile of the Dalit AAP candidate Deelip Mhaske, a rag-picker’s son who returned from America, which the poster hails as an inspiring example.
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Society
The Dalits need no religion
A comment on the religious affiliation of Dalits, recalling Mayawati and Kanshi Ram’s anger at the caste order and the neo-Buddhism and Bhim Sena movements of Maharashtra, with the poster’s…
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Society
A lonely BP
Shares two pieces from Centre India, including Harsh Gupta on how India’s centre-left builds a coalition of Christians, dalits, tribals and the poor, within the tension between inclusion and nationalist…