Ambedkar and the Grammar of Justice
Against the Brahminical imagination that hardened socially contingent exclusion into a hereditary condition, B.R. Ambedkar proposed Navayana—a new Buddhism—an inheritance transformed by the demands of justice.
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Against the Brahminical imagination that hardened socially contingent exclusion into a hereditary condition, B.R. Ambedkar proposed Navayana—a new Buddhism—an inheritance transformed by the demands of justice.
Gandhi’s transformative walks, particularly the contrasting Dandi and Noakhali marches, serve as profound reflections on the intersection of personal redemption and political action. The contemporary political landscape in India reveals a troubling disconnection from Gandhi’s principles of truth and nonviolence.
‛Explained: Why Uproar Over Delimitation, More LS Seats Using Women’s Quota as “Cover”’; ‛Christophe Jaffrelot on Delimitation and Modi Govt’s Plans for Centralised “Akhand Bharat”’; ‛Delimitation Could Create Permanent Winners and Losers in Representation’; ‛Ambedkar, Rajaji’s Fears of North-South Divide Resonate in Modi Govt’s Delimitation Agenda’.
‛Not for Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures’; ‛Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India’s Women’; ‛BJP’s “Men’s Reservation Bill” Defeated, But When Will Women’s Reservation Win?’.
‛Notes from Noida’; ‛The Workers Who Keep India’s Cities Running Have a Simple Message – Pay Us Living Wages’; ‛Noida: High Profits, Stagnant Wages, and a City on Edge’; ‛In India, Minimum Wages Exist Only on Paper’.
Across villages in India, protests erupted in December 2025 after the Narendra Modi-led BJP government scrapped one of the largest social safety nets in the world and replaced it with a watered-down version.
‛Manipur Needs No More Repression or Coercion. It Needs a Deeper Understanding’: It seems the idea of “foreign hand” has become an excuse for not seeing the internal causes for the ongoing violence in Manipur. Also: ‛How to End the Sufferings of the People of Manipur?’.
‛India’s Education Scam: From Fake Data, to Fake Degrees and Fake Claims’: When rankings, patents, and enrolment numbers to obtain government benefits become ends in themselves, products of such a system will lead to compromised competence in laboratories, courtrooms, hospitals, and boardrooms. Also: ‛Why Academic Freedom in India Hangs Between Attacks and Resistance’.
Private school fees are 10 times government school fees, and nearly four in ten secondary students pay for coaching on top.
‛Notifying Families, Policing Choice: Gujarat’s Proposed Marriage Rules Expand State Power Over Intimacy’: A proposed amendment to Gujarat’s marriage law requires that blood relatives and the public be informed before registration of marriage. Courts have repeatedly held such requirements unconstitutional. Also: ‛Intercaste Marriages and the Unfinished Law’.
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