As Ravan scrambles to ‘upgrade’ himself, Mayawati has been branded as ‘Manuwaadi’
5 years, 9 months ago

As Ravan scrambles to ‘upgrade’ himself, Mayawati has been branded as ‘Manuwaadi’

Op India  

Those people definitely haven’t read Manusmriti who burn random books in the name of Manusmriti by pasting an A4 sheet on their covers with Manusmriti written on it. It becomes a fight for survival for both but there is only one book that they can target, as the intellectuals didn’t have time to prop up a new one! This is that transition phase, when between the next generation of leaders’ families and the new voters, a person identifying as Ravan incarnates and talks about doing good for them. Even if one has to organise fake seminars, Sir William Jones wouldn’t hesitate organising several of them and he wouldn’t think twice while inviting pseudo-intellectuals like Ma Mueller to document their assumptions as historical facts and pass it on as history of India, on which all the historians of future would base their work on. It’s then when every upper caste person becomes responsible for a stray act of violence against a Dalit.

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How Mayawati is trying to win back Dalit, backward caste vote base
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India Today  

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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2 years, 2 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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2 years, 8 months ago

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India Today  

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3 years, 7 months ago

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News 18  

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3 years, 11 months ago

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News 18  

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4 years, 4 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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4 years, 11 months ago

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Firstpost  

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