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A recent study on impact of droughts catalysed by climate change on Dalits and the Adivasis of Marathwada region of Maharashtra points to the grim reality that it is the socially and economically vulnerable who are the worst sufferers of these weather-related natural disasters.
Their health, and the health of their children, is put at risk because they lack the documents needed to obtain the biometric number.
Gandhi remains so real. It is because he drew meaning from ordinary things, especially those that signified the persistence of friendship and love amidst hatred and violence. That is why his life and message are so much a part of the “still sad music of humanity”.
The struggle for inter-faith harmony remains vital and urgent. To overcome the malign forces of Hindutva, we need Ambedkar and Gandhi on the same side.
May 2000: There are four Gandhis who have survived Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s death. Fifty years after Gandhi’s (1861-1948) assassination, it may be useful to establish their identities.
At the very outset, two things can be said about Gandhi. One, no leader of modern India has been misunderstood as much as Gandhi. It would be true to say that Gandhi has been written about a lot, but understood very little. Two, today we need to understand him more than ever before.
No state, whether it is Iran, India or any other, has the right to tell women what to wear.
Akeel Bilgrami speaks on the relationship between Gandhi and Marx, issues of modernity, academic philosophy in India, secularism, caste and current politics in India, the Hindutva political challenge and ways of resistance, and the importance of Left politics.
Those who want to tailor history to suit their political agenda never mention Akbar built Vishwanath Temple—only that Aurangzeb destroyed it.
Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising: Oxfam; India Enters ‘Amrit Kaal’ with Growing Atrocities Against Dalits.
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