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The 1950 Constitution only provided for reservation for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. But the Constitution writers left a window, by the way of Article 340, which allowed future governments to appoint a commission to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes. The first such commission ...

No matter how privileged, a girl was willy-nilly a captive of orthodoxy. All girls – in Rukhmabai’s distressing description – were born to be “enslaved daughters.” How did that happen? Grappling with the question made her understanding of women’s predicament acute and nuanced.She could see from personal experience that ...

Indira Gandhi was keen on investing in Farooq Abdullah. He came across to her as a happy-go-lucky man who was neither ambitious nor deeply rooted in Kashmir politics and ethos. His only qualification was that he was the son of a father whose political goodwill was spread out across ...

#Pakistan News "Sandwich" presents a story of a young man’s continual struggle for survival between two cultures, namely the East and West. Born into a working-class family, his parents sent him to a prestigious private school forfeiting their own comfort. Time passed, and despite terrains of challenges he achieved ...

Q: When Vajpayee was in Parliament with Nehru, how was this rivalry showcased?I write that when Vajpayee spoke for the first time in Parliament on 15 May 1957, he did not waste a second in attacking Nehru. He was sitting in front of him and you know, he immediately ...

In a recent incident in Pune, your concert with Zakir Hussain was advertised as a jugalbandi (a duet of two solo musicians). I recall the fact that even though your attention was drawn to it, you were fine ...this despite the incorrect connotation because Zakir Hussain was such a ...

Dr. Arif Alvi, President of the Republic of Pakistan said that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, gifted him the book “My Story” in the Urdu language. He added: “I will read it without any ...

Kameshwar died in 1959, Prithvi Theatres closed down, and Zohra stopped acting. For three years she lived in a kind of suspended animation, bereft of all the resources, relationships and activities that had sustained her. Kameshwar’s death, the more or less simultaneous closure of Prithvi Theatres and Uzra’s final ...

A Map of Longings is a new biography of Agha Shahid Ali, with chapters spanning the poet’s family history, and covering various aspects of Shahid’s life as an adolescent, as a Hindu College student in Delhi, and as a poet and professor in India and the US. The story ...

#Pakistan News The awards were announced during a remote ceremony that honoured the best work in journalism and the arts in 2020, a year defined in part by the police killing of George Floyd and the protests and reckoning which followed. 'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts ...