According to its website , the group seeks to “challenge the harmful labeling of caste in the global lexicon.” It argues that ...
To capitalists, believed Marx, the "icy water of egotistical calculation" is important for resolving "personal worth into ...
I was quite excited when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched what was called "the expanded Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) scheme" for those aged 70 and above, ...
On 16th November morning, on opening Facebook, I came across a post in Gujarati which said, "The controversial speaker Kajal Hindustani, infamous for her provocative speeches, is scheduled to deliver ...
A recent Patna High Court judgment on alcohol ban in Bihar can as well be applied to Gujarat. As reported by a legal news portal, under the title "State's Alcohol Ban Led To Illegal Liquor Trade; ...
The Print has carried an interesting story, headlined “The Great Indian Sanitation Scam. General castes bag govt jobs, Valmikis do the work”, with the sub-head, “Across India, proxy, ‘badli’, or ‘ewaj ...
It was with a welcome surprise that I received a reaction from Gujarat Congress chief Shaktisinh Gohil objecting to my blog titled “When Congress leaders in Gujarat forgot to remember Jawaharlal Nehru ...
The other day when I received a WhatsApp forward (it said "forwarded many times"), I got terribly worked up, even though I shouldn't have done it. I generally don't like such forwards as these seek to ...
It was November 14, Jawaharlal Nehru’s 135th birth anniversary. While the national leaders everywhere – ranging from Congress’ bigwigs to Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh – paid their tributes to the ...
While the fever around that the Gujarati new year, Bestu Varas, which fell on the next day of Diwali, November 1, has still not fully subsided, with noise of crackers still heard in the urban area ...
My Vadodara-based activist-friend, Jagdish Patel, who has long championed the cause of the victims of silicosis, a deadly occupational disease, has forwarded to me an interesting blog by the executive ...