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IN THE NAME OF CASTE
Caste narratives expose inner fault-lines in our hierarchical society and can easily spark off controversy. Last week, when Jai Ram Thakur was selected as the BJP’s Himachal Pradesh chief ministerial candidate, I tweeted about how nine of the eleven BJP chief ministers (excluding the north-east) now belong to upper castes. Predictably, the tweet raised an […]
When NiMo Meets NaMo by Rajdeep Sardesai
When NiMo meets NaMo One good thing in the often joyless times in which we live is the flowering of satire and cartooning on social media (yes, RK Laxman’s legacy is alive and kicking) For the last week, my whatsapp has been buzzing, not so much with breaking news, as with ‘breaking jokes’. Every few […]
The Gujarat model comes to Delhi – Rajdeep Sardesai.
The Gujarat model comes to Delhi, writes Rajdeep Sardesai The state has been stifling dissent in campuses and appointing partisan VCs. JNU fits the pattern Updated: Jan 17, 2020 11:46 IST By Rajdeep Sardesai Long before Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), there was Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. In May 2007, a group of Vishwa Hindu […]