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Prakash
Ambedkar - Clash of ideologies (Essay) - The contradiction between
the judiciary and the political system is straining the fabric of
the nation. |
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Udit
Raj - Reservation integrates society (Essay) - India will
remain a nation divided until the upper castes admit to taking special
privileges and oppressing the less fortunate. |
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G.
N. Devy - A bridge too far - (Essay) - Why
the tribal population in India’s villages doesn’t care about the cacophony
over reservations. |
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B.
K. Roy Burman - That faultless figure (Essay) - India needs proper
statistics to move beyond the politics of caste, class and numbers
and bring about social justice. |
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Abusaleh
Shariff - An inefficient economy (Essay) - No country
can develop by using only the capacities of the fortunate |
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Satish
Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav - Beyond caste and quotas
(Essay) - An alternative proposal for securing social justice in higher
education |
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Purushottam
Agrawal - By other means (Essay) - The concept of MIRAA, an affirmative
action system which does not require preset quotas |
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Jayati
Ghosh - In praise of bluntness (Essay)
- While sophisticated techniques of affirmative action are laudable,
they are unlikely to work as well as quotas in education |
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S.M.
Michael - With respect to caste and creed (Essay)
- Caste has resiliently survived conversion and the Dalit Christian
is a legitimate beneficiary of affirmative action |
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Zoya
Hasan - Children of a lesser Allah(Essay) - If
quotas are supposed to level the playing field, it is unfair to leave
out underprivileged Muslims |
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A.S.
Panneerselvan - Reservation is good economics(Essay)
- Going by the experience of South India, the profit motive alone
urges support for reservation |
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Sukumar
Muralidharan - Mandal II and the media (Essay)
- The Indian media, which made a fool of itself during Mandal I, has
improved only just |
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Youth
for Equality - Don’t kill merit(Essay) - The organisation
which is spearheading the anti-reservation protests of students explains
why they don’t want quotas in higher education |
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Sanil
M.N. - Still a part apart(Essay) - The Dalit student
must struggle against impossible odds but is nevertheless stigmatised
as an incompetent beneficiary of reservations |
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Parsa
Venkateshwar Rao Jr - Raging against Manu(Review)
- Re-reading the Manava Dharma Shastra, the founding document of the
caste system |
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Anikendra
Nath Sen - Sitrep from Shri Mauriteshwarnathji(Essay)
- The people of Mauritius the Tamools, Baboojees, reinvented
Rajputs and divers diasporic Hindous the idea of caste takes
on unexpected implications |
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Sundaram
- Bhangadi (Poetry, translated from the Gujarati) |
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Madduri
Nageshbabu - Fundamental right (Poetry, translated
from the Telugu) |
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Balbir
Madhopuri - He said — (Poetry, translated from
the Punjabi) |
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Arun
Kale - Let us pray for them (Poetry, translated
from the Marathi) |
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Yendluri
Sudhakar - Drumbeat (Poetry, translated from the
Telugu) |
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Nirmala
Putul - If you were in my place (Poetry, translated
from the Hindi) |
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Meena
Kandasamy - Mohandas Karamchand (Poetry) |
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Durga
Prasad Panda - The room (Poetry, translated from
the Oriya) |
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Mudnakudu
Chinnaswamy - Untouchables (Poetry, translated
from the Kannada) |
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P.
Ajithkumar - Caste (Poetry, translated from the
Malayalam) |
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Saratchandra
Chattopadhyay - Abhagi’s heaven (Fiction, translated
from the Bengali) |
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C.
Ayyappan - Madness (Fiction, translated from the
Malayalam) |
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Mohanlal
Philoria - Quota-wallah (Fiction, translated from
the Punjabi) |
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Uday
Prakash - Mohanlal (Full-length novella, translated
from the Hindi) |
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Plus
- 20 pages of reviews of books on caste |