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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar formed the new government with the help of BJP and Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular (HAMS), but challenges are mounting for him as his new allies have stepped up their pressure.An instance of what lies in store ...

Newly-appointed Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Samrat Choudhary, played the Kushwaha card on Saturday as he said that no one can touch the people from his community.Addressing a gathering during the birth anniversary celebrations of Jagdev ...

Replying to JD(U) Parliamentary Board Chairman Upendra Kushwaha’s continued tirade, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said, “Upendra talks rubbish.”

The people’s mandate in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party has consolidated the aggressive, masculine, and religious majoritarianism of the “new India” cherished by the Sangh Parivar. This further squeezed the little public space available for the marginalised sections of the society, especially Muslims. The formation of a group of compromised citizens who are ready to give

Budh Sharan Hans: ‘Had OBC leaders stood with Ambedkar, India would be different today’ Budh Sharan Hans is counted among the leading Dalitbahujan thinkers. He tells Arun Narayan that it was the OBC leaders’ indifference to Ambedkar adopting Buddhism that turned their communities into the biggest advocates of Brahmanism Born in Tilora village in the Wazirganj area of Gaya district of Bihar on 8 April 1942, Budh Sharan Hans belongs to the rare breed of writers who practise what they preac...

Even the nights after her death (translated from Alok Dhanwa’s poem “Bhagee Huyee Ladkiyan”) These lines by Alok Dhanwa are a merciless attack on the patriarchal grip on the institution of marriage in our society.   Solemn desires articulated through literature and art are considered immortal but do they have any impact on society? I am not aware of any research on how literature has influenced society in the Hindi belt. But what I know is that there are some individuals who not only ta...