After forming a majority government in 2007 in Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati often used to stoke the political ambitions of Dalits with her stirring statement: “If a Dalit party can give chief minister to the largest state of the country, why can’t it give the nation its first Dalit prime minister?” It was the vision …
On Thursday, anti-Brahmin activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan went on an unhinged tirade against the ancient Indian Hindu practice of Yoga. The anti-Brahmin activist participated in a podcast, hosted by one Matthew Remski and titled ‘Conspirituality.’ Screengrab of the tweet by Thenmozhi Soundararajan During the one and half-hour long podcast, Soundararajan cast aspersions on the history of Yoga and claimed that it …
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was a man who is today more remembered for his elegant and simple rendering in English of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. In July 1953, he introduced a new education scheme known as the “Modified Scheme of Elementary Education 1953”, which reduced schooling for elementary school students from five hours to three hours per day and suggested that boys …
“We are not here to be servants, we are here to rule the country,” declared Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad at the launch of the political arm of the outfit in Noida on Sunday. “We will start with Bihar Assembly elections and Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls to be held later this year,” said Mr. Azad, who was appointed the national …
