There’s a wonderful article in Tehelka by Kumar Ketkar about Narendra Dabholkar (dated August 21).

…what is important to note is that his life as well as his brutal death have completely exposed the hypocrisy and vacuousness of Maharashtra’s claim to be progressive and modern. Indeed, his murder has shaken the establishment to the core, much more than his lifelong struggle to eradicate superstitions from society.  For more than forty years, he worked to build the organization Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti  ( Association to Abolish Superstition) and established a network of thousands of activists across Maharashtra – rural and urban. He had collected evidence on how thousands of women were victims of superstition and were exploited by sadhus, babas and

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