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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is in Dahod, Gujarat, today where he has launched the Adivasi Adhikar Satyagrah campaign. He will address the meeting and is expected to highlight the problems of the tribal community and talk about the measures that should be taken to solve them. He has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led […]
Claims and counter-claims apart, allegations and counter-allegations apart, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, the key rivals in Gujarat’s December 2022 electoral contest, seem to have already identified the bottomline for victory and survival respectively. The Adivasi and the Dalit Vote — in that order. This explains two simultaneous tribal meets, a three-day National […]
Stereotypes rule Bollywood. Talk of a good woman and she must be draped in an Indian attire. Talk of a “family man” and he must wear that ubiquitous half-sleeve shirt and Indian formals. And talk of adivaasis, they must be dark-skinned, stalky and yes, illiterates, savage in their behaviour and crude in their orientation. Commercial […]
