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Vol VI : issue 4 &
5
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Sukhadeo Thorat
Thomas Weisskopf
Sitaram Yechury
Omprakash Valmiki
Rajendra
Yadav
Malkhan
Singh
Omcherry
Abhayanand
Bama
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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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | G. N. Devy - A bridge too far - (Essay) - Why the tribal population in India’s villages doesn’t care about the cacophony over reservations. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Abusaleh Shariff - An inefficient economy (Essay) - No country can develop by using only the capacities of the fortunate |
| • | Satish Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav - Beyond caste and quotas (Essay) - An alternative proposal for securing social justice in higher education |
| • | Purushottam Agrawal - By other means (Essay) - The concept of MIRAA, an affirmative action system which does not require preset quotas |
| • | 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 |
| • | 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 |
| • | 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 |
| • | A.S. Panneerselvan - Reservation is good economics(Essay) - Going by the experience of South India, the profit motive alone urges support for reservation |
| • | Sukumar Muralidharan - Mandal II and the media (Essay) - The Indian media, which made a fool of itself during Mandal I, has improved — only just |
| • | 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 |
| • | 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 |
| • | Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr - Raging against Manu(Review) - Re-reading the Manava Dharma Shastra, the founding document of the caste system |
| • | 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 |
| • | Sundaram - Bhangadi (Poetry, translated from the Gujarati) |
| • | Madduri Nageshbabu - Fundamental right (Poetry, translated from the Telugu) |
| • | Balbir Madhopuri - He said — (Poetry, translated from the Punjabi) |
| • | Arun Kale - Let us pray for them (Poetry, translated from the Marathi) |
| • | Yendluri Sudhakar - Drumbeat (Poetry, translated from the Telugu) |
| • | Nirmala Putul - If you were in my place (Poetry, translated from the Hindi) |
| • | Meena Kandasamy - Mohandas Karamchand (Poetry) |
| • | Durga Prasad Panda - The room (Poetry, translated from the Oriya) |
| • | Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy - Untouchables (Poetry, translated from the Kannada) |
| • | P. Ajithkumar - Caste (Poetry, translated from the Malayalam) |
| • | Saratchandra Chattopadhyay - Abhagi’s heaven (Fiction, translated from the Bengali) |
| • | C. Ayyappan - Madness (Fiction, translated from the Malayalam) |
| • | Mohanlal Philoria - Quota-wallah (Fiction, translated from the Punjabi) |
| • | Uday Prakash - Mohanlal (Full-length novella, translated from the Hindi) |
| • | Plus - 20 pages of reviews of books on caste |