Tag: B.R. Ambedkar

  • Custodians Of Compassion And Country

    HABITUALLY omitted from history books, women are often the torchbearers of resistance against injustice. Though just 14 of the 102 Indian independence activists listed on Wikipedia are women, India was one of the first nations in modern times to boast a female leader, Indira Gandhi, in 1966. And while history honours Dr B R Ambedkar as…

  • Small Talk With Dhirendra Pratap Singh

    CHANGE leaders do great things, and often that is all we know about them. Here we want to get a different glimpse of the personalities that constitute the development space. Every month we get one leader to answer four questions, not necessarily about their work, but about themselves. This week we catch up with Dhirendra…

  • Caste Is A Shadow In India: 4 Books To Read

    OVER six decades ago, the Constitution of India abolished “untouchability” and prohibited discrimination based on caste – yet caste continues to oppress and ostracise people in India today. Even a sketchy understanding of India’s socio-political narrative or its economic and human development is incomplete without comprehension of what is referred to as world’s “longest surviving…