Because ‘Achche Din’ are well and truly here, because equality has been achieved, and because we are in ‘Ek Bharat, Shresht Bharat’, they decided to stop funding research centres on social discrimination.
Rest in peace: Rohith Vemula.
And now, because the milk of human kindness is flowing down the streets and flooding railway compartments occupied by 15-year-olds, they are being advised to get rid of the minority affairs ministry.
Rest in peace: Mohammed Akhlaq, Pahlu Khan, Junaid.
Truly, #MeraDeshBadalRahaHai.
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Clearly, the developments in the last six decades have resulted in creating a Dalit affluent class (Devyani Khobragade, K. Shivaramu, the Kharge clan, the Jarakiholi sultanate come to mind for some reason) and a dalit middle class across the nation. If they have the will, they certainly can keep the research flourishing through private contributions. By the way, creating a level playing field perhaps requires that the standard of fairness be equally applied to all sections of society regardless of an individual’s membership in a caste. Consider the irony in our own dear Kannadaland: The Eda dalits feel that the Bala faction has appropriated an inordinate share of the opportunities created to accord a measure of equity to the whole community.
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