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Behind the aggressive gestures, symbolism & caste centric rhetoric there is unsaid restlessness of the #Telangana #Reddys as they're away from absolute power. Read my detailed piece on emerging new caste dynamics .. thenewsminute.com/article/away-t…

Villagers near Hyderabad were surveyed by economists so many times that when another economist showed up & asked a question, an irritated villager said, “Is this for a PhD or M.Phil? I will accordingly make the answer long or short.”

This article by @RSPraveenSwaero talks about interpretative injustice against the Dalits (Untouchables*).

దబాంగ్ స్టైల్ లో ప్రెస్ మీట్ లు పెట్టి నేరస్థుల అంతు చూస్తాం అని పోజులు కొట్టే పోలీసు అధికారులు, పోలీసింగ్ పేరు మీద మోరల్ పోలీసింగ్ చేసే పోలీసు అధికారులు సర్పంచిని ఆపి అవమానించిన ఆ తీవ్రవాదిని ఎన్కౌంటర్ చేస్తారా ??

Tomorrow! "The Fate of Pragmatism in India: John Dewey, Bhimrao Ambedkar, and the Democratic Ideal." Zoom link and US/Asia times here-> asianpragmatism.org/2026-webinar-s…

Many congratulations to @NidhiSuresh_ on winning Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender 2025. All the work she puts into a story, the patience she brings to it, is something we’ve seen in the newsroom. The last 2 years have given us some of her best work.

Sanjay Hegde’s Stand is Pure Constitutional Gold‼️ “The river belongs to non-vegetarians as well.” While BJP Yuva Morcha gets 14 Muslim men arrested for a peaceful Iftar on the Ganga — citing ‘hurt religious sentiments’ — Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde reminds India what justice truly means. The Ganga is not a private Hindu property. Public spaces belong to every Indian, every faith, every plate. No selective outrage. No selective arrests. Hegde sahab, you just upheld the soul of the Constitution. Respect. 🙏 #GangaForAll #EqualityNotBigotry

Drawing on ideas of "primitivity" and "progress", Ambedkar historicised caste. It was not an "ahistoric" or "inherent" mode of discrimination, but rather a universal one that India might overcome. Read @arvinalaigh's debut research article in @Global_IH! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another Rohith Vemula: A Tragedy That Demands Outrage In a deeply disturbing incident, Dr. Ratan Kumar Meghwal, a final-year MBBS student from the SC community at AIIMS Rajkot, allegedly died by suicide after jumping in front of a train. Before taking this tragic step, he left behind a 17-page suicide note. In his note, Ratan Meghwal reportedly held Asmit Sharma and four of his associates responsible for his death. According to the contents of the note, he had been subjected to severe harassment, physical assault, and relentless mental torture, pushing him into unbearable psychological distress. This tragedy painfully echoes the case of Rohith Vemula in 2016 at the University of Hyderabad, whose heartbreaking final letter said: “My birth is my fatal accident.” At the time, the nation believed that such a devastating event would force institutions to confront discrimination and reform their systems. Yet, the pattern appears to have continued. After Rohith came Dr. Payal Tadvi in Mumbai (2019), Darshan Solanki of IIT Bombay (2023), and other cases such as Ayush and Anil from IIT Delhi. And now, Ratan Meghwal. Year after year, the country’s most prestigious institutions—IITs, AIIMS, and Central Universities—are witnessing the deaths of promising young students who entered these campuses with dreams but allegedly faced humiliation, discrimination, and unbearable pressure. Even official data presented in Parliament indicates that in recent years dozens of SC/ST/OBC students have died by suicide, with many cases linked to discrimination, harassment, and systemic pressure within campuses. In Ratan Meghwal’s case, police have registered a complaint and arrested the five accused individuals, while the SC/ST Cell has begun an investigation. This is not just another case. It is a collective moral failure. When institutions meant to nurture talent instead become places where students feel crushed by harassment and prejudice, it is not merely a tragedy—it is an indictment of the system itself. A nation that prides itself on education and equality must confront this reality with honesty and urgency. No student should have to pay for their dreams with their life.

ఆ డైలాగులకు, ఆ ఛీప్ థంబ్'నెయిల్స్'కు కూడా జర్నలిస్ట్'గా చలామణి కాగలుగుతున్నావ్ కానీ నీ ప్లేస్ లో వేరేటోడు ఎవడున్నా కనీసం పైల్స్, వరిబీజం, బుడ్డ వంటి రోగాలకు చేసే దేశి ట్రీట్మెంట్'కు సంబంధించిన పాంప్లెట్లు రాసే పని కూడా ఎవడు ఇచ్చేటోడు కాదు నీకు..

అవి ఎమ్ థంబ్ నెయిల్స్ ? జడ్జి వా ? త్రిపురనేని రామస్వామి చౌదరి సురవరం ప్రతాప రెడ్డి'లు కూడా వాళ్ళ రాతల్లో అదే విషయాన్ని చెప్పారు కదా? అంటవా వాళ్ళను ? ఓహ్, ఎదుటోడు మాదిగోడు అయ్యేసరికి నోరు లేచొస్తుందా ?ఎదో ఆ బ్రాహ్మణ కులం తోక ఉండబట్టి తప్ప నీ తెలివికి నీ వాగాడంబరానికి,..

ఇచ్చి పడేయడానికి నువ్ ఎవడివి భరత్, అర్చకుల ఆశీర్వాదాన్ని తప్పు పట్టొద్దని ఉందా ? లేక వాళ్ళసలు తప్పులు చేయలేదని చెప్తున్నావా ?థంబ్నేల్ సన్నాసి, ఒకసారి త్రిపురనేని రామస్వామి చౌదరి సురవరం ప్రతాప రెడ్డి లాంటి వాళ్ళు రాసిన చరిత్ర కొంచం చదువుకో !

Will be discussing parts of my introduction to an upcoming co-edited volume titled "The Caste Problem in Contemporary India" with Professor Barbara Harris-White. If you are in and around Boston, do join.

If not for his caste-capital his third canards would have not been sold out as journalism.

Having media & govt led by his caste men is his sole eligibility to say anything & everything. His open heart show is nothing but shutting down his guests with his mediocre surface level knowledge. @AnjanaMeenakshi

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An exceptional piece of reporting by my colleague @Jahnavi_R. She looks into making of Praveen as a charismatic Christian preacher & anatomy of his death & politics around it. thenewsminute.com/andhra-pradesh…

The acquittal of @ArvindKejriwal & @msisodia @RaoKavitha-K hints at the gravity of hit&run politics. Events that followed have led to Kavitha's ousting from BRS citing that she is being launched by Congress. BJP has obviously drawn heavy 'political' dividends through this.

#DelhiLiquorScamCase may have been fake. Maybe some random CBI officer will get suspended for a week. But someone did make money due to the so-called scam. Remember? Businessman accused in Delhi liquor scam paid BJP Rs 55 crore via bonds thenewsminute.com/telangana/busi…

“Kerala has the highest conversions to Islam” : This claim collapses the moment you look at official data. As reported by The News Minute, Kerala Gazette figures show: • 365 converted to Hinduism • 343 converted to Islam • 255 converted to Christianity Hinduism had the highest number of converts & there were no 32,000 conversions like the propagandist spread. The narrative of mass Islamic conversion in Kerala is political fiction amplified by films like The Kerala Story, not backed by numbers. Kerala’s social fabric is built on coexistence not conspiracy theories. Facts > Propaganda. thenewsminute.com/kerala/who-is-…

42 Dalits — mostly women and children — burnt alive in Kilvenmani, 1968. Not a riot. A cold, calculated massacre by dominant-caste landlords. Manoj Mitta’s explosive book Caste Pride lays bare the two templates this horror set in stone: 1. Dominant castes can unleash mass violence on Dalits with zero fear. 2. The Indian legal system will gift them full, shameless impunity. 56 years later, those templates are still running on repeat — Una, Hathras, Bilkis, Jhajjar, and every fresh atrocity we pretend to “condemn”. This isn’t ancient history. This is the DNA of “New India”. Some precedents should NEVER have been set. Yet here we are, still living inside them. Read Caste Pride. Break the templates. Or stop calling it justice. #KilvenmaniMassacre #CastePride #DalitLivesMatter #EndCasteImpunity #ManojMitta Silence is complicity.