Friend or Enemy of Dalits?
Dr. Ambedkar Mahasabha honoured the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with Dalit Mitra or Friend of the Dalit award on the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on 14 April 2018 in Lucknow....
View ArticleCity Montessori School Example Of Everything That Is Wrong With Private Schools
The City Montessori School of Lucknow figures in the Guinness Book of World Records for largest enrollment of 55,000 in a school, although it is not one school but has 18 different branches spread...
View ArticleWho Allows Usurpation Of Constitutional Values?
A former Director General of Border Security Force, DGP, UP and Assam, Prakash Singh has written a piece in Indian Express saying that Kathua and Unnao incidents of rape were not as much of...
View ArticleBJP’s New Sand Mining Policy: Award Contracts to Party Supporters
When Bhartiya Janata Party government was formed in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath a number of educated middle class people thought that days of caste politics and corruption...
View ArticleWhy Does RSS-BJP Not Like These Hindu Monks?
86-year-old Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand sat on an indefinite fast in Haridwar on 22 June 2018 to demand making a law on conservation of river Ganga. Nobody came to see him from the Ministry of Water...
View ArticleWhen Muslim Women Became My Saviour
Sandeep Pandey Before the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register dharna at Ghata Ghar was symbolically withdrawn on 23 March morning, I happened...
View ArticleApologising to Bilkis Bano
It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano’s rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Let us speak out so that humanity survives, so that...
View ArticleVasant-Rajab Exemplary of Communal Harmony in Gujarat
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931. Another lesser known duo from Ahmedabad, who displayed similar idealism and laid down...
View ArticleOne More Reason Why Private Schools Must Be Nationalised
Private schools will never remain accountable to the government. If we have to prevent incident like the one described in this article, it is one more reason that now India must nationalize education...
View ArticleWatching the Steady Decline of Academic Freedom at IIM Ahmedabad
“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
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