welfare

Election In Pincodes: Caste and welfare cocktail, with a southern flavour

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A volunteer collects data during the caste survey 1715196038033

Lakshmi Tirupatamma has a ritual. On the first of every month, the 22-year-old grabs a bulging folder from her cupboard and her old workhorse of an Android phone before setting out on a familiar trek of 50 households. In her suburb of Navaluru, a peri-urban sprawl that sits at the edge of Guntur district in … Read more

Election In Pincodes: Amid welfare push, the shifting sands of Dalit politics in Agra

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Ambedkar visited Agra in 1956 a key date for the 1714505393094

Clumps of darkness are descending on a young man as he rappels down the remnants of a 60-foot stage, its skeleton stripped of its cloth finery but still held up by gaunt poles of bamboo throwing menacing shadows. As he swings around on a pole, undoing knots of coir that hold together the structure, debris … Read more