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Dr B. R. Ambedkar (first from right in second row) with his professors and friends from the London School of Economics and Political Science, circa 1916-17.

How London taught Ambedkar to ‘educate, agitate, organise’

A new book explores B.R. Ambedkar’s little-known years in Britain, revealing his far-reaching influence on anti-discrimination movements.
Cynthia Stephen
The Karnataka tableau at the full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on January 23, 2023.

Karnataka: The southern outlier

Its unique politics have contributed to its non-typical Dravidian culture in which minorities, backward classes, and Dalits are equally significant.
Cynthia Stephen
At a protest meet against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens, at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on January 26, 2020.

A history of modern India: Review of ‘The Queen of All Nations’ by Abhijit Sengupta

The history of India retold for the young generation who, the author feels, are the most vulnerable in a “knowledge game”.
Cynthia Stephen
A woman drinks water on a very hot day, during a Dalits’ dharna demanding regularisation of land on which their huts are built, on the occasion of Babu Jagjivan Ram’s 99th birth anniversary in Hyderabad in April 2006.

Unveiling marginalised Indian womanism: Review of ‘Dalit Feminist Theory’ 

The book challenges traditional academic perspectives on feminism with a focus on the lived realities of Dalit women in India.
Cynthia Stephen
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