ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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Development of a Few, Misery for the Masses

After 70 years of independence, India continues to languish at the bottom of the comity of nations on every parameter that constitutes real development. The widening economic disparities and relentless violence against Dalits, Adivasis and minorities demonstrate that B R Ambedkar’s dream of social and economic equality accompanying political equality remains elusive.

[I]t is not survival but the quality, the plane of survival that is important.

B R Ambedkar (1979)

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