In early April, 9.1 million people were deleted from West Bengal’s voter rolls ahead of the state’s elections. This May, the BJP swept West Bengal, marking a turning of the tides and a huge victory for Narendra Modi’s party.
On the birth anniversary of Pandit C. Iyothee Thass, Hindus for Human Rights remembers a radical anti-caste thinker whose life still challenges us to reject caste, religious supremacy, and inherited hierarchies.