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  1. You are pushing students out of school

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    / July 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The story in `The Hindu‘ today from a Bangalore school where four students, admitted under the Right to Education (RTE) quota, were discriminated against by cutting their hair, was waiting to happen. In this case, the school, which has been opposed to the RTE’s 25 per cent quota for economically...

  2. Spare us please. It isn’t funny

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    / May 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
    While in college, when I started freelancing in the late 80s, I used to write stories for `Children’s World’. A monthly magazine published by the Children’s Book Trust. An institution established in 1957 by the late Shankar Pillai, known as the patriarch of political cartooning in India. It was therefore...

  3. BJP’s Laxman rekha on Laxman

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    / April 29, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Staying untrue to its tagline of `party with a difference’, the BJP acted no differently on Bangaru Laxman. Washing its hands off its former national president, the party said “the jail term awarded by the court in a bribery case is part of a legal process which does not involve...

  4. Kerala is not 100% literate

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    / April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Blip in Kerala’s social indices. A study by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration finds about 2.2 lakh people belonging to the Scheduled Castes in the state are illiterate. This is 9.5 % of the Dalit population. Deccan Chronicle reports that this study on scheduled caste habitat and families also...

  5. Who do you hold a beef for?

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    / April 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Twitter, where `outrage’ is more often than not, the dominant emotion, yesterday degenerated into verbal diarrhoea of the worst kind. The issue at the centre of it all was the Hyderabad Beef Festival, organised by a group of Dalit students at the Narmada Research Scholars (Ambedkar) Hostel on Osmania University...

  6. Godification of Dr B R Ambedkar and Shivaji Maharaj

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    / December 25, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Step aside prosperous elephant-head and castaway your rings, naughty Saturn. You guys might have the rich followers and overflowing hundis, but you can’t beat the power of the new Gods of the downtrodden. Touch us if you can.

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