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5 months, 1 week ago

‘Main nahi maanta…’ Asaduddin Owaisi quotes Pakistani poet Habib Jalib in Lok Sabha; ‘Muslims made untouchables’

Hyderabad Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi quoted Pakistani revolutionary poet Habib Jalib on July 29 while speaking on Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha. Owaisi, the president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, read lines from Habib Jalibs's famous Urdu nazm ‘Dastoor’ to criticise the ‘discriminatory’ Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament last week. To this I …

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6 months ago

Queensland legal experts compare LNP 'adult crime, adult time' policy to failed Newman bikie laws

ABC

The Queensland opposition's latest announcement to combat youth crime has been panned by legal experts, with one comparing it to Campbell Newman's failed bikie legislation. The LNP launched its "adult crime, adult time" policy yesterday, which would see minors tried as adults for serious crimes, should the party win government in the October state election. 'More violence, more lockdowns' Queensland …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

A.K. Antony interview | ‘Anti-BJP, anti-Modi sentiment is prevalent’

The Hindu

Antony, former Kerala Chief Minister and Union Defence Minister, has been an astute politician and a member of the Congress Working Committee. In an interview with The Hindu at the KPCC office, Mr. Antony speaks about the future of the INDIA bloc, the Congress’s vexed relations with the Left in Kerala and his son Anil K. Antony’s entry to the …

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11 months ago

Owaisi-Led AIMIM Aims To Contest 5 Lok Sabha Seats In Maharashtra

News 18

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen is planning to contest five out of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra in the upcoming general elections, a party leader has said. Addressing a press conference in Bhiwandi town here on Sunday, AIMIM’s Maharashtra working president Dr Abdul Gaffar Quadri said the party is aiming to field its candidates in North Mumbai, Dhule, …

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11 months ago

AIMIM aims to contest 5 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra

Hindustan Times

Addressing a press conference in Bhiwandi town here on Sunday, AIMIM's Maharashtra working president Dr Abdul Gaffar Quadri said the party is aiming to field its candidates in North Mumbai, Dhule, Nanded, Bhiwandi and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar seats in the state. He also criticised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who recently ditched the 'Mahagathbandhan' and the opposition INDIA bloc, and formed …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Who Contributed More to the Constitution and Its Preamble? Nehru, Not Ambedkar

The Quint

f) In his ‘States and Minorities’, Dr Ambedkar presented another absurd demand. He wanted people belonging to the Depressed Classes to be taken out of their traditional villages and resettled into separate “new villages” created exclusively for them! Furthermore, Dr. Ambedkar told Bevarali Nikolas in an interview in 1944: “In every village, there is a tiny minority of Untouchables. g) …

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1 year, 3 months ago

From the Archives: ‘Treat minorities fairly’, Gandhi's advice to Hindus

Hindustan Times

The division of India with subdivision of some provinces puts us on our mettle, says a message issued by Mahatma Gandhi, and read out in place of his usual speech at the prayer meeting on Monday, his silence day. The message adds: “The papers today talk of a grand ceremonial to take place in London over the division of India …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Robert Swan, known for ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Rudy’ dies at 78

India TV News

Robert Swan, the veteran character actor who appeared in key roles in the notable sports films Hoosiers, Rudy and The Babe, has died after a long battle with cancer at his home in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. Swan was known for his work in several feature films, including his role as a Mountie captain in Brian De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’, which …

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1 year, 5 months ago

11 parties with 91 MPs remain on fence as BJP, Congress sew up alliances

The Hindu

While 65 parties have joined either the BJP or the Congress-led coalition, there are at least 11 more with a total 91 Members in Parliament who have chosen to stay neutral for now in the high-stakes general elections next year. The parties that are part of the neither grouping are: YSR Congress Party, Biju Janata Dal, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Bahujan …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘We are political untouchables for them’: AIMIM leader on not receiving invitation to Opposition meet

Hindustan Times

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen National Spokesperson Waris Pathan lashed out on Opposition parties, who met in Bengaluru to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2024 national elections, for not inviting AIMIM saying that they were “political untouchables” for the 26 like-minded parties. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi He said, “They did not call us, we are political …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Novelist Richard Ford on dyslexia, musical heroes and his heavyweight literary feuds

The Independent

Richard Ford’s celebrated Frank Bascombe novels are about a failed novelist turned sports journalist. I don’t think of myself as a savant but writing novels, the little crucible that writing novels is, and the torque and the intensity of trying really hard to say something to interest the reader, sometimes causes you to say something smarter than you would have …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Naik: STs still treated as untouchables

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Chairman of TPCC Adivasi Congress wing Bellaiah Naik Tejavath on Sunday criticised the Central government for not inviting President Droupadi Murmu, an Adivasi, to inaugurate the new Parliament House building. Bellaiah Naik likened it to untouchability and said the social evil was still being practised against the ST community. We felt happy that a 125-foot-tall Ambedkar statue is being …

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1 year, 7 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

1 year, 8 months ago

I will not die as a person who calls himself a Hindu: Ambedkar

The Hindu

On October 13, 1935, B.R. In the first English-language biography of Ambedkar, Dr Ambedkar: Life and Mission, by Dhananjay Keer, a prolific biographer based in Mumbai, the statement is reported as: ‘I will not die a Hindu’. Nevertheless, as his work was the only book on Ambedkar in English for several decades, ‘I will not die a Hindu’ has been …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The man who knocked on the door of God

New Indian Express

Madhavan met Mahatma Gandhi at Tirunelveli in 1921 and informed him about the disabilities of the Izhava community, sought his advice on the proposed temple entry movement and the support of the Congress party. Robin Jeffrey quotes about the interview details thus, “I would ask you,” Gandhi began, “to drop temple entry now and begin with public wells. Except for …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Food delivery executives lament discrimination in apartments

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Food delivery executives across Apps are an aggrieved lot; not that they have any complaints against their employers but against the ‘inhuman’ manner they are treated by the customers, who place orders. Delivery executives are not allowed beyond the entrance gate, although we will be carrying groceries weighing around 30 to 40 kg.” Jatavath Srikanth said, “there are malls …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Manchester City’s De Bruyne urged to focus on ‘simple things’ amid dip in form

The Hindu

Kevin De Bruyne has long been one of the untouchables at Manchester City. City manager Pep Guardiola thinks De Bruyne — European football’s assist king — needs to focus on the “simple things” to get back to his best. “He has an incredible ability to make an assist, to score goals and see passes like no one else, but I …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Republic Day 2023: Who is the Father of the Indian Constitution? Who is Called Mother of the Constitution?

News 18

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY 2023: The Indian Constitution is the supreme law of India. The Father of Indian Constitution Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, was an ambitious leader, journalist, economist and social reformer who fought for discrimination against the untouchables. Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was the first Law Minister of Independent India who introduced the final …

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2 years, 1 month ago

You claim to be poor, but I'm one of untouchables: Congress prez Kharge hits out at PM Modi at Gujarat rally

India Today

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "leader of lies" and said the latter tries to gain sympathy by calling himself poor. You claim to be poor, but I'm one of the untouchables, Kharge said. Addressing a public rally at Dediapada in poll-bound Gujarat's Narmada district, the veteran Congress leader said he himself comes from …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Union Minister calls for efforts to curb untouchability and social ostracism

The Hindu

Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment A. Narayana Swamy expressed regret that the country continued to be bogged down by socio-economic inequalities even after 75 years of independence and called for concerted efforts to eradicate untouchability and social ostracism which were causing untold misery to the marginalised sections. Mr. Narayana Swamy stressed the need for a debate …

State Union Minister Narayana Swamy

2 years, 2 months ago

A French author recounts a Dalit epic

Live Mint

French author Martine Le Coz first came across the story of King Salhesh in 2012, during a visit to Jitwarpur village in Bihar’s Mithila region. This was not her first tryst with art and culture from the state—she first “met” India through Mithila drawings at the age of 20; her work with artists from the region has led to three …

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2 years, 3 months ago

The atrophy of the neo-Buddhist movement in India

The Hindu

Every year in October, thousands of people assemble at Nagpur’s Deekshabhoomi to pay homage to B.R. Today, the Buddhist population in India is one of the smallest minorities, its ideological challenge against the Hindu social order has not been taken seriously, and even within the Dalit community, conversion to Buddhism is not perceived as a suitable path to achieve social …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Who is Dalit or Savarna? Why caste system must go in totality

India Today

A nine-year-old Dalit boy's death in Rajasthan after his teacher assaulted him for drinking water from a source allegedly not meant for him has led to public outrage and the opposition BJP’s attacks on the ruling Congress. THE BRITISH AND ‘HARIJAN’ VS ‘DALIT’ The British brought their idea of census to India and the requirement for people to name their …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Book Review | Unflinching look at custom and caste

Deccan Chronicle

When I read Vultures written by Dalpat Chauhan, translated from the Gujarati by Hemang Ashwinkumar, I had tears in my eyes long after I closed the book. Originally written in 1991, as a Gujarati novel titled Gidh, its English translation suitably titled Vultures is a stark and unflinching portrayal of custom-sanctified violence, debt bondage and caste labour. This sets forth …

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‘Main nahi maanta…’ Asaduddin Owaisi quotes Pakistani poet Habib Jalib in Lok Sabha; ‘Muslims made untouchables’

Queensland legal experts compare LNP 'adult crime, adult time' policy to failed Newman bikie laws

A.K. Antony interview | ‘Anti-BJP, anti-Modi sentiment is prevalent’

Owaisi-Led AIMIM Aims To Contest 5 Lok Sabha Seats In Maharashtra

AIMIM aims to contest 5 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra

Who Contributed More to the Constitution and Its Preamble? Nehru, Not Ambedkar

From the Archives: ‘Treat minorities fairly’, Gandhi's advice to Hindus

Robert Swan, known for ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Rudy’ dies at 78

11 parties with 91 MPs remain on fence as BJP, Congress sew up alliances

‘We are political untouchables for them’: AIMIM leader on not receiving invitation to Opposition meet

Novelist Richard Ford on dyslexia, musical heroes and his heavyweight literary feuds

Naik: STs still treated as untouchables

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

I will not die as a person who calls himself a Hindu: Ambedkar

The man who knocked on the door of God

Food delivery executives lament discrimination in apartments

Manchester City’s De Bruyne urged to focus on ‘simple things’ amid dip in form

Republic Day 2023: Who is the Father of the Indian Constitution? Who is Called Mother of the Constitution?

You claim to be poor, but I'm one of untouchables: Congress prez Kharge hits out at PM Modi at Gujarat rally

Union Minister calls for efforts to curb untouchability and social ostracism

A French author recounts a Dalit epic

The atrophy of the neo-Buddhist movement in India

Who is Dalit or Savarna? Why caste system must go in totality

Book Review | Unflinching look at custom and caste