An in-depth study of the issue of Dalit human rights and the caste system from varying perspectives including those of the victims, the book is divided into two sections. The first section is a comprehensive account of a two-day national workshop at Chennai, the first of its kind, on “Human Rights and Societal changes with reference to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes†jointly organized by NHRC and DELT. The four sub-themes for discussion were ...
Painstakingly researched, Star-crossed Indian 1966-2005, is a perceptional and opinionated look back at the political events of about forty years. Centred round the unpleasant Janata experience of 1977-79, it focuses penetratingly on the role of leaders who wrecked the first non-Congress Government at the Centre within twenty-eight months of its coming into being. Similar insight attends the repetition of the tragedy a decade later when the Vishwanath Pratap ...
