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✱Autocratic and fascist regimes consolidate power by reducing complex socio-political realities into rigid binary oppositions. Instead of addressing systemic economic inequalities, they redirect public anger toward scapegoats—immigrants, minorities and dissenting voices.
🤡Over the past decade, income and wealth generation in India have increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few
ꦑAnand Teltumbde’s Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar presents him as a human—a complex, dynamic figure from whom future generations can draw meaningful lessons
Slip-ups such as the one by Amit Shah in Parliament expose the fragile facade of Hindutva followers' claimed reverence for Ambedkar and risk undoing the BJP’s carefully crafted outreach to Dalit communities.
ܫThe controversy over electoral votes apart, the Mahayuti won as it recalibrated with ground-level mobilisation, alarmed by the results of the Lok Sabha elections, while the Maha Vikas Aghadi lost due to its ‘business as usual’ attitude
Maharashtra's economy has faced significant challenges due to the BJP’s power games, and there has been a worrying exodus of major industrial projects from the state
꧋The ONOE proposal to synchronise elections puts the dynamic democratic process at risk
🅘The caste census is generating heated debate, but even its most ardent proponents are not able to articulate a plan about how to use the resulting data
🍌This Independence Day, we are in an age in which we need assurances from our leader that the Constitution will survive
ꦉNot just Hindu raj, Ambedkar opposed every argument for Partition as well
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