Underground Dalit Leaders: Band of Brothers

More to Moditva

The aggrieved, the aspirational, the awed and the austere. The anatomy of a history-shifting verdict

From Identity Politics to Aspirational Politics

Name of the change

Mayawati: The Redundant Symbolism of Statues

The out caste

Out of Maya

Old-timers in BSP are disillusioned with Kanshi Ram’s protégé. Do Dalits share their sentiment? Rahul Pandita travels in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh to gauge the depth of dissent against Mayawati

An Untimely Botch Up in Jisha case?

Post mortem of raped and murdered Dalit woman in Kerala puts a big question mark on time of death that the police had estimated

The Life and Death of Jisha

What the gruesome rape and murder of a law student says about the dangers of being marginalised in an insensitive society where the police are as brutal as the sexually depraved

Bant Singh: Notes of Defiance

An ode to the Dalit singer Bant Singh explores the beauty and bloodiness of Punjab

The Death of Rohith Vemula and the Republican Ideal of a Just Society

Late Harvest

A pioneering Dalit autobiography that offers a remarkable narrative on the many aspects of truth