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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Assam chief minister apologies for his 'Brahmin-Shudra' post on social media

Guwahati: After a controversy, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has apologised for his social media post in which, referring a verse from the Bhagavad Gita he wrote that serving the Brahmins, Ksatriyas and Vaishyas is the natural duty of the Shudras. Mr Sarma in a post on X and Facebook clarified that he uploads one verse of Bhagavad Gita …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Academia Will Suffer a Great Loss if Ambedkar is Removed from DU's Discourse

The Quint

His scholarship was truly wide ranging and rooted in interdisciplinarity, decades before the ascendance of the same as a dominant paradigm within academic circles. He was probably the first Indian to undertake a scientific approach to south Asian historiography grounding it in the cultural politics pertaining to the rise of caste as a social organising system. Building on the framework …

Caste

2 years, 3 months ago

Tamil Nadu BJP leader held for 'threatening' DMK's A Raja over Sanatan Dharma remarks

India Today

A BJP leader in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly threatening Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP A Raja. In a speech last week, BJP's Coimbatore district head Balaji Uthamaramasamy allegedly threatened A Raja for his comments on Sanatan Dharma and and dared him to step inside Coimbatore. A RAJA'S REMARKS ON SANATAN DHARMA A Raja recently stoked a …

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2 years, 4 months ago

'No God Is A Brahmin,' Claims JNU Vice Chancellor, Highlights 'Gender Bias' In Manusmriti: Report

ABP News

Hindu Gods do not anthropologically stem from the higher caste, according to JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, who delivered the keynote lecture at the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment's B R Ambedkar Lecture Series, Indian Express reported. I’m saying this because recently in Rajasthan, a young Dalit boy was beaten to death just because he touched the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Caste, Mughals & Emergency: How Historians See NCERT's Syllabus Rationalisation

The Quint

Another paragraph that has been left out from the same chapter reads, "By and large when compared to the situation prevailing before independence, the condition of all social groups, including the lowest caste and tribes, has improved today. Another paragraph in the Class 6 political science textbook earlier said that women and shudras were not allowed to read the vedas. …

Caste

2 years, 6 months ago

DMK leader defends his casteist comment 'Hindi will reduce Tamils to status of 'shudras'

Firstpost

TKS Elangovan also claimed that Hindi-speaking states in the country were not developed, while those with vernacular languages as mother tongue were doing well Hours after causing a storm with his remark on Hindi, DMK leader and the party’s Rajya Sabha member TKS Elangovan on Monday defended his comments by saying the arrival of the language from the north has …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Watch: April's Firstpost Book Club | In conversation with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Omprakash Mahato

Firstpost

The Firstpost Book Club read Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy’s The Shudras: Vision for a New Path in April. The Firstpost Book Club read The Shudras: Vision for a New Path in April. Edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy, The Shudras is a collection of essays that delves into the multi-layered predicaments faced by India’s …

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3 years, 8 months ago

G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy

The Hindu

The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karupusamy, political theorists and the editors of The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, seem to think so. From a Shudra perspective, the suggestion that they should support one Brahminical national party instead of another Brahminical national party because the former is ‘secular’ …

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3 years, 9 months ago

BJP MP Pragya Thakur complains of breathing difficulty, airlifted to Mumbai for treatment

India Today

BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur was airlifted to Mumbai for treatment on a chartered plane after she complained of difficulty in breathing on Saturday. Pragya Thakur was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi in December last year. In June last year too, Pragya Thakur's health deteriorated during a program when she suddenly fell unconscious. READ | BJP MP Pragya Thakur, 3 …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Sadhvi Pragya gets exemption from appearance in Malegaon blast case, Purohit quarantined

India Today

A special NIA court hearing the Malegaon blast case of 2008 on Tuesday granted exemption to Lok Sabha MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who is an accused in the case, from regular appearance. Sadhiv Pragya, who is one of the seven accused in the Malegaon blast case, sought exemption for appearance on the grounds of health and security. Advocate Prashant …

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4 years ago

'Shudras Take Offence When Caste Called Out for They Are Ignorant': Pragya Thakur's Latest Shocker

News 18

Pragya Thakur, the BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Bhopal, on Sunday said that a ‘shudra’ “feels bad when called a shudra because they are ignorant and for the lack of understanding.” Infamous for her frequent controversial remarks, the 2008 Malegaon blast accused was addressing a gathering of the Kshatriya Mahasabha when she said, “A kshatriya doesn’t feel bad if we …

Lok Sabha Thakur

4 years ago

'Shudras feel bad on being called shudras': BJP MP Pragya Thakur courts controversy with caste remarks

India Today

BJP MP Pragya Thakur has courted controversy, again. She then goes on to say, "Kshatriya ko kshatriya keh do, bura nahi lagta. #WATCH | Kshatriya ko kshatriya keh do, bura nahi lagta. Kyunki samajh nahi paate: BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur in Sehore, MP pic.twitter.com/CbCctxmACp — ANI December 12, 2020 Meanwhile, Pragya Thakur on Sunday also hit out at Bengal …

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Assam chief minister apologies for his 'Brahmin-Shudra' post on social media

Academia Will Suffer a Great Loss if Ambedkar is Removed from DU's Discourse

Tamil Nadu BJP leader held for 'threatening' DMK's A Raja over Sanatan Dharma remarks

'No God Is A Brahmin,' Claims JNU Vice Chancellor, Highlights 'Gender Bias' In Manusmriti: Report

Caste, Mughals & Emergency: How Historians See NCERT's Syllabus Rationalisation

DMK leader defends his casteist comment 'Hindi will reduce Tamils to status of 'shudras'

Watch: April's Firstpost Book Club | In conversation with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Omprakash Mahato

G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy

BJP MP Pragya Thakur complains of breathing difficulty, airlifted to Mumbai for treatment

Sadhvi Pragya gets exemption from appearance in Malegaon blast case, Purohit quarantined

'Shudras Take Offence When Caste Called Out for They Are Ignorant': Pragya Thakur's Latest Shocker

'Shudras feel bad on being called shudras': BJP MP Pragya Thakur courts controversy with caste remarks