Articles by S M Dahiwale

In your editorial comment (“Ambedkar Cartoon Controversy”, EPW, 26 May 2012) you described the attack on National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks as a “threat to destroy a democratic pedagogy for schoolchildren”, and in the article by Manjit Singh (“Cartoon

The Khairlanji incident of 29 September 2006 in which a mob of caste Hindus lynched the entire family of Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange shamed humanity, but justice has remained elusive. A majority of the police and medical officers, across ranks, handling the case, were dalits. But they showed a negligent attitude towards their official duties and social indifference to the plight of the Bhotmange family. The Nodal Officers, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, recorded the attitude, particularly of the civil surgeon and the district superintendent of police to be "aloof and indifferent to allowing the crime and subsequent manipulation of evidence".