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April 14, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Politics

Intensify Struggle against Caste Oppression: CPI(ML) – New Democracy

Struggle against caste oppression should be made part and parcel of all democratic struggles. It is very necessary to overcome division among the Indian people, caste division being main among them,...

February 27, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Politics

Political Polarisation Intensifies: Opposition Demands Privilege Motion against Smriti Irani

The Union HRD minister, Smriti Irani, has been accused of misleading the Parliament willfully by three major Opposition parties, Congress, CPI(M) and JD(U). They are polarising to press for privilege motion...

February 27, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Politics

Mother of Rohith Accuses HRD Minister of Lying in the Parliament

The controversy surrounding the suicide of the Dalit research scholar, Rohith Vemula, deepened when his mother, Radhika, and brother, Raja, accused the Union HRD minister, Smriti Irani, of lying in the...

February 26, 2016
Arindam Roy
Politics

Smriti Irani: Suicide of Rohith, JNU Controversy and Mahisasur Martyrdom Day

Union HRD Minister, Smriti Irani’s emotional speech, shocked the nation with the hard facts that she placed on the table of Lok Sabha. She agonised the suicide of Rohith Vemula....

January 8, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Saintly Vijayan!

In his over three-decade journey as a journalist, Arindam shows us the many faces of newsrooms in India, at the turn of the Millennium. He calls this series, ‘The...

November 29, 2015
Shruti Nagvanshi
Dissent, Human Rights

Dalits Walk Tall

A decade long movement leads to Dalit empowerment in Varanasi. Two authors, Dr. Archana Kaushik, a social work educator, teaching Social Work at the University of Delhi and Shruti Nagvanshi, a...