Aswini Ashok

Every election season we get torn between two narratives. One is the majority and politically correct stand of exercising our voting power by hook and crook. The other is by the extreme leftists on how the current electoral system is a mess and no good will happen through voting. Amid this there are other miscellaneous narratives on how a single vote will (not) bring any ‘huge’ change or the need for representative electoral, etc., etc., However, one cannot deny the fact that every election season we get worked up on who to vote for or who to vote out, unless otherwise, we are following any party or person blindly. That makes it simple sometimes. Anyways as millennial voters, we are time and again lectured on the need to vote for the right candidate irrespective of the party. Let me illustrate how I have religiously followed it and loosened my stand over time. It was in the year 2015, I have developed a severe hatred  against our ex-Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for the scam...

The book “Mr. Gandhi and the emancipation of the untouchables” is a book adaptation of the paper submitted by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on the “Problem of the Untouchables of India” for the Session of the Conference which was held on December 1942 at Mont' Tramblant in Quebec in Canada. Critical Digest brings this title as one of the many titles published by them on Ambedkar’s thought-provoking speeches and writings. The book exclusively deals with the problems faced by the untouchables in India and puts forward recommendations to overcome the social inequality backed by Hindu religion, by providing a fair level of political play for the untouchables. It also questions the role of leaders of India on their role of the emancipation of Untouchables. Ambedkar demands the following for the emancipation of untouchables in this book: Separate constituencies where the untouchable representatives are elected only through untouchable voters. Hindus should not interfere with this....