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obc voice: April 2006

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Romila Thapar writing on the past (the History of India, Volume 1, page 85):. Watch this 'extreme self-confidence' in action when upper-caste kids preen and smirk in talk-shows on television: nothing has changed. Posted by obc voice @ 1:57 PM. Links to this post. Who's afraid of the numbers? Indians may well ask: what is after all the relevance of these studies of caste in pre-British or ` traditional' India? Hasn't it changed significantly today? Posted by obc voice @ 1:21 PM.

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obc voice: March 2007

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007. That's the OBC script. The OBCs don't exist. That's what I had said. A few months ago. For sixty years, the Government of India refused to count the OBCs because they didn't exist. Now the Supreme Court says they don't exist because they were never counted. More than an interesting paradox, doesn't that seem like a great con job? I congratulate the smart actors, the collaborators, in this drama, the great pillars of our democracy,. I mean your democracy. Links to this post.

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obc voice: June 2006

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Thursday, June 29, 2006. The oppressors and the OBC script. Blogger MK had posted a comment parroting the old, unsubstantiated charge that 'OBCs-are-Oppressors' here. I did not think his barely hidden animosity towards the OBCs needed a response. but I responded nevertheless because I felt this would give me an opportunity to crystallize my own thoughts on an issue that is increasingly being used by anti-reservationists of all hues (. They might be wearing, red. Chandrabhan Prasad says "It is not the maj...

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obc voice: October 2006

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Friday, October 20, 2006. On September 27th in a federal courthouse in Chicago an appellate panel will hear argument in the first case that seeks to hold major American financial institutions liable for their role in financing, underwriting and profiting from slavery in the United States.'. Among the financial institutions in the dock are : JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brown Brothers Harriman. Says - 'the origins of what came to be known as the system of indentured labor owed everything to the aboli...

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obc voice: August 2006

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Friday, August 25, 2006. He said as soon as they will get a copy of the bill, the medicos will consult lawyers and move the Supreme Court against the proposed legislation.' Read more about what the agitating medicos plan. To do now that the Bill has been introduced in parliament. Let me put it more bluntly - both the 'stallers' in government and the 'challengers' from civil society were both motivated by blind prejudice. Until now. And it seems like, even now. Posted by obc voice @ 10:21 AM. Barkha Dutt ...

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obc voice: July 2006

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Monday, July 17, 2006. The state has blocked my voice. So I tried to infiltrate into the Indian etherwaves through Pakistan, by assuming a new identity ( http:/ pkblogs.com/obcvoice. Not everyone likes a proxy warrior. So, I have opened another front ( http:/ onebc.blogsome.com. Because someone has stolen my identity too. The state ignored the existence of the OBCs for half a century - now, a patriotic blogger has decided I should remain. I would continue to post as obc voice. But I’d be posting as onebc.

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obc voice: September 2006

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Friday, September 29, 2006. Pundits, I write about you. A pundit on Desipundit implies in a snide comment here. That I write about '. I think I write about institutions, formal and informal,.that block/censor/kill anything that questions our '. Like Desipundit. which has certified, more than once, that the students (whose. Fighting for 'equality' are non-political, non-violent. Posted by obc voice @ 10:42 PM. Links to this post. Wednesday, September 20, 2006. The poor, illiterate.oppressor.

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obc voice: May 2006

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Saturday, May 27, 2006. For me, the defining image of the week was Sagarika Ghose of IBN-Live crying out : ' Isn't there a single politician in the country who would speak for all sections of society? In the country is speaking out for 'all'. Sections of society, Ms.Ghose? Posted by obc voice @ 1:45 PM. Links to this post. Thursday, May 25, 2006. If there are no reservations at all. I noticed this query elsewhere on the net - I agree with the commenter :. There is nothing in the Indian. Links to this post.

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obc voice: April 2007

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007. And who were the first to ask for data? And who were these gentlemen? They headed the First and Second Backward Classes Commisions. Listen to what Kalelkar had to say:. That was a recommendation of the Kalelkar Commission outlined in its 1955 report. Let's see what the much reviled B.P.Mandal did to acquire data. Saying that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, independent India’s first Home minister, had decided in 1950 that there will be no caste-based census from 1951 onwards, when the...