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  Religion & Power in India The Architects of Chaos The Brahminical Role and the Riddle of Morality How the custodians of Hinduism built a theology of convenient truths — and what it cost the civilisation they claimed to protect   HYDERABAD   |   Special Report I n the long history of organised religion, few questions are as disorienting as a simple one posed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at the opening of his seminal work Riddles in Hinduism: why is a Hindu a Hindu? A Parsi can answer in a sentence. A Muslim can answer in five words. A Christian's answer fits on a bumper sticker. Ask a Hindu, and the question opens into a labyrinth — of competing gods, contradictory scriptures, incompatible philosophies, and a social order that claims divine sanction while being visibly constructed by human hands. This is not an accident. It is, Ambedkar argued, the product of a sustained and largely successful project of institutional design — one whose architect...

  The Cracks in America's Sanctions Empire: How China Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Trade For decades, Washington could tell the world who it could do business with. That era may be ending. Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan A Routine Blacklisting That Wasn't On April 24, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department added five Chinese oil refineries to its sanctions list — punishment for purchasing Iranian crude oil in violation of American restrictions. On paper, it looked like business as usual. Since the 1990s, the United States has imposed economic sanctions more than any other country in history. By 2024, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintained sanctions programs targeting over 20 countries , more than 9,000 individuals and entities , and used this tool more than 10 times as often as it did two decades ago. The dollar's dominance — it accounts for roughly 58% of global foreign exchange reserves and underpins nearly 88% of all international trade ...

Caste Census: Foundation for Social Justice—Don't Let Political Promises Become Empty Rhetoric By T. Chiranjeevulu  IAS (Ret) , Founder and President BCIF (BC Intellectuals Forum) In the 79-year history of independent India, many critical issues have been debated. Land reforms, reservations, linguistically organised states, and economic reforms have shaped the nation's future. Yet one issue remains unresolved—one directly connected to social justice:  the caste census . Other backward classes (OBCs), who constitute the largest percentage of India's population, have demanded for decades that their actual population figures and socio-economic conditions be officially recorded. Yet political parties have used this issue as an election promise only to retreat once in power. The History of Caste Census Caste-based data collection in India is not new. British rulers initiated caste enumeration in the census from 1881 onward. The 1931 census was the last to comprehensive...

        Riddles in Hinduism by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar     A Comprehensive Summary with A Rationale for Every Indian to Read This Work     "The soul of India lives in its villages and its oppressed." — Dr. B. R. Ambedkar   About the Author Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was one of the most towering intellectuals India has ever produced. Born into a Dalit (Mahar) family in British India, he overcame extreme social discrimination to earn doctorates from Columbia University (New York) and the London School of Economics. He was the principal architect of the Constitution of India, the country's first Law Minister, and a lifelong crusader for the rights of the oppressed.   Riddles in Hinduism was written in the 1950s and was published posthumously. It represents Ambedkar's most thorough, scholarly, and unsparing examination of the foundations of Hinduism — its scriptures, its theology, its soci...