Economist Ashwini Deshpande on Why Reservations are Not the Right Instrument to Reduce Poverty
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Economist Ashwini Deshpande on Why Reservations are Not the Right Instrument to Reduce Poverty

Reservations were conceptualised as compensation for social discrimination, not economic deprivation, argues Deshpande, professor of Economics at Ashoka University, while discussing the apex court verdict.

No Matter What it Says Now, RSS Did Not Participate in the Freedom Struggle
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No Matter What it Says Now, RSS Did Not Participate in the Freedom Struggle

The facts are as follows: The RSS was set up in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar. In the entire period from 1925 till 1947, it did not participate in any campaign or movement launched by the Congress or any other party or group. Nor did it initiate any movement against the British by itself.

Aruna Asaf Ali and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle
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Aruna Asaf Ali and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Aruna Asaf Ali were two prominent women in the freedom struggle who were near contemporaries. Examining their lives together uncovers an essential unity in their vision, which may not have been realized during their life-time but serves as an inspiration today.