Chandra Bhan Prasad on Ambedkarism, Caste, and Dalit Capitalism
Ideas of India
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The Dalit Columnist
You were the only Dalit I read through my growing up years in the pioneer. Jaini Mitra has to be given that credit. Even BNU real was a great Indian journalist. There was a quarrel between Indian journalists with Khan Shiram. And Khan Shiram had at least slaved that Jaini. So much was written and then an American journalist called Kenneth J. Cooper asked Hidudya Ramanakshmi to see very very very generally. Then he made, he started searching for that. But you were the first Dalit columnist in a national newspaper in English who had a regular voice.
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