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The Dalit Movement today and its Labyrinth

Sun, 2010-05-09 10:54 | Moggallan Bharti
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In our time all what the ‘emblem’ of Dalit politics strives is to simply hold on to power. Thereby, losing its ‘real’ political edge in the world of Indian politics - of the clientele- patronage system, which in turn has resulted in directing the whole movement towards a path which can be anything but the path towards a larger societal change where one wishes to see the absolute dismantling of the caste hierarchies.Moggallan Bharti, student of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University, writes. 

Misplaced Symbolism

Tue, 2009-08-25 15:12 — srinir

The major project to erect memorials and build statues of Dalit icons in Uttar Pradesh has received wide attention. This blog entry (and also EPW editorial) tries to put things in perspective. 

Rita Bahuguna Joshi must be sacked

Tue, 2009-07-28 21:10 | V. Krishna Ananth

There is something wrong somewhere with the Congress party. How else do we explain the fact that the president of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, saying what she said about rape? And more than that, how else do we explain the reaction of the party high command to all that had happened involving Rita Joshi? And all this at a time when the Congress party appeared to have shown signs of a revival in Uttar Pradesh after having been treading on a course of decline in the past two decades certainly shows that the party lacks a coherent organizational philosophy.

Source: 
Permanent Revolution