Anand Teltumbde

Dhammakranti at 70: What did Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism really achieve?

Scholar, author and a political thinker Anand Teltumbde reflects on Ambedkar’s historic turn to Buddhism, asking what conversion achieved—and what it could not—seven decades later

Ambedkar's dilemma: How reservation for 'backward classes' subverted annihilation of caste

Caste was skillfully transplanted from feudalism into the fertile ground of the modern Constitution, revived and legitimised in the garb of social justice to manipulate people

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