Prayagraj: An assistant professor at Allahabad University has been booked for allegedly making objectionable remarks about Lord Ram and Krishna. Booked under IPC sections 153-A, others The right-wing groups in their complaint, filed at the Colonelganj Police Station, alleged that Professor Vikram Harijan, a professor at the Department of Medieval and Modern History, made offensive remarks about the deities in …
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 …
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 …
We all have heard ‘Vaishnav Jan To’ as the song of Mahatma Gandhi. It is said that Lord Krishna helped him and he has composed a poetry on the same, known as ‘Mameru Na Pada’. Mehta depicts how Sri Krishna, in the guise of a wealthy merchant, helped Mehta in getting his son married in his book ‘Putra Vivah Na …
