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Will Caste Census Finally Happen This Time?

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...
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Riddles in Hinduism: A Rationale for Every Indian to Read This Work

        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...

B.R. Ambedkar’s Riddles in Hinduism

A n overview of B.R. Ambedkar’s  Riddles in Hinduism , a critical examination of the internal contradictions found within Hindu scriptures and traditions. The concept of Hindu identity is characterized by a "religious chaos" that makes it nearly impossible for a practitioner to define their faith through a single unifying creed. Unlike other major religions with definite founders or singular scriptures, Hinduism shelters a complex congeries of monotheists, polytheists, and even those who worship tutelary deities of rocks and streams. A central pillar of this system is the authority of the Vedas , which the Brahmins declared to be infallible and Apaurusheya , asserting they were not created by man. To establish this, they utilized the logic of the Purva Mimansa , arguing that since sound is eternal and words are made of sound, the Vedas must be eternal and uncreated by any personal agency, whether human or divine.   However, this supremacy was a historical shift; early Dh...

Musk's SpaceX IPO : The Trillion-Dollar Monolith (SPCX)

  Musk's SpaceX IPO:  The Trillion-Dollar Monolith SpaceX's record-breaking Nasdaq debut is a triumph of narrative over numbers. With Morningstar valuing the company at barely half the IPO price, retail investors are being asked to finance a science-fiction manifesto on faith alone. CHUPPALA NAGESH BHUSHAN HYDERABAD, June 12th, 2026 When the opening bell rang at New York's Times Square Nasdaq studio this morning, it did not simply mark the debut of a new stock. It announced the coronation of something larger and stranger — an $1.77 trillion entity that is simultaneously a rocket company, a satellite internet provider, an artificial intelligence venture, and a social media platform, unified almost entirely by the will and reputation of one man. SpaceX, trading under the ticker SPCX, is now a publicly listed conglomerate. Whether it is a sound investment is a considerably more interesting question. The raw numbers of the offering are genuinely staggering. By pri...

The Musk Doctrine

   The Musk Doctrine How a man who grew up under apartheid came to sell sovereignty-as-a-service to nation-states, rewire American defence and, in the process, invent something that looks disconcertingly like a new ism CHUPPALA NAGESH BHUSHAN   Jun 11th 2026 W hen historians of the early twentieth century sought to make sense of the social upheaval wrought by mass production, they did not merely catalogue Henry Ford’s eccentricities. They coined a term—Fordism—and used his factories and habits as a prism through which to read an entire civilisational shift. A similar intellectual exercise now presents itself with far greater urgency. Elon Musk is not simply a flamboyant billionaire with a weakness for social-media provocation. He is, argue Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff in their book  “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,”  the load-bearing column of a new and distinctly unsettling political-economic order. The one-line definition the authors offer is decep...