Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said 151 statues of B.R. Ambedkar were vandalised across 72 districts of Uttar Pradesh under the BJP government, with only 14 arrests made. He released…
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has accused the RSS and BJP of historically favouring the Manusmriti over the Indian Constitution drafted by Dr B R Ambedkar. Speaking at the Jalsa-e-Rahmatul-lil-Alameen in Hyderabad on…
An exhibition titled 'SWARAJ: Revisualising India's Political History' was held at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi from August 12 to 16, curated by Neville Tuli and presented by the Tuli…
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said protests can be a form of dialogue, speaking at an event organised by the Indian International Movement to United Nations. He claimed Indian tradition fostered a culture…
Frontline Conversations features lawyer and author Manuraj Shunmugasundaram discussing the 100-year struggle to democratise temples in India. The conversation traces the movement from the 1924 Vaikom Satyagraha to contemporary debates over temple…
The Karnataka High Court has strongly criticised the state government and police over the alleged mob assault of a 19-year-old mentally unsound youth in Chamarajanagar district, thehansindia.com reports. Justice M. Nagaprasanna, hearing…
Seventy years after his death, B.R. Ambedkar has become the most widely read freedom figure among young Indians. At student protests and on social media, his image and quotes from works such…
V D Satheesan called on people to protect constitutional values and democratic rights at Kerala’s Independence Day celebration in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. He said secularism, equality, freedom of expression and protections for…
The News Minute argues that India’s freedom struggle was also a battle for control over information. Newspapers led by figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Maulana…
Statues of B.R. Ambedkar were vandalised overnight in Hasnapur village, Unnao district, and Chandpur village, Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday. Villagers, mostly Dalits, held sit-in protests demanding action against the culprits.…
