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Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi: Grassroots Impacts | Real Life Heroes | The SocioFare Awards 2026 | Delhi

 

🌿 Shruti Nagvanshi on Dignity, Grassroots Leadership, and Social Justice

🌿 Shruti Nagvanshi on Dignity, Grassroots Leadership, and Social Justice

Honoured to share that Shruti Nagvanshi has been featured in DeFacto 2026, the annual publication of Hansraj College, University of Delhi. The interview reflects on decades of grassroots work with marginalized communities through Jan Mitra Nyas and People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR).

The conversation highlights dignity, women’s empowerment, Dalit rights, community leadership, hope, and social justice rooted in lived experiences.

📖 Read the full blog here:

https://pvchr.blogspot.com/2026/05/shruti-nagvanshi-on-dignity-grassroots.html

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A meaningful moment of dialogue through culture, literature, and shared values.

 A meaningful moment of dialogue through culture, literature, and shared values.

My wife Shruti and I had the opportunity to present our book Kashi to a senior public official, Shri Aniruddh Singh Ji. After reading it, he wrote appreciatively about the spiritual and cultural significance of Kashi — a reminder that literature still has the power to build empathy, reflection, and human connection.

According to the available profile, Shri Aniruddh Singh comes from a farming family, studied Medieval History at Allahabad University, joined the Uttar Pradesh Police as a Sub-Inspector in 2001, was later promoted to Inspector, belongs to the 2019 DSP batch, and has also received a national award in photography.

These details matter because they challenge narrow stereotypes of policing. Education, artistic engagement, cultural sensitivity, and social rootedness can shape more reflective and humane forms of public service.

These moments may seem small compared to larger institutional debates, yet they carry an important truth: public institutions are ultimately shaped by people, and people are shaped by culture, history, relationships, and moral imagination.

As I reflect further in my article on democratic policing and public trust, meaningful change in institutions begins not only with policy reforms, but also with deeper human understanding.

Read here:

https://medium.com/@lenin_75290/from-fear-to-trust-why-india-must-rethink-policing-through-democracy-dignity-and-public-service-592569d518fe

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“Warning becomes worming. The law becomes its own erasure.”

 “Warning becomes worming. The law becomes its own erasure.”

A powerful and deeply reflective review by Aayushi Rana on Dalits in Independent India and Margins to Centre Stage. The piece confronts caste violence, state impunity, labour exploitation, and grassroots resistance with honesty and urgency.

“India shed its British shackles in 1947, but failed to dismantle the domestic architecture of oppression.”

Read the full article here:

https://www.independentink.in/post/worming

Article of Shruti Nagvanshi

 

Kashi

 Kashi is not just a city—it is the living heartbeat of India’s civilizational soul.

For centuries, it has been a space where diverse traditions—Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, and Islamic—have coexisted, interacted, and enriched each other. It is the land shaped by voices like Kabir, Ravidas, Premchand, and Bismillah Khan—voices that speak of harmony, dignity, and shared humanity.

My book Kashi is an attempt to tell a people’s history of this timeless city—one that goes beyond its sacred image to reveal its layered realities.

It brings forward the unheard voices:

• Sanitation workers risking their lives in sewers

• Widows abandoned in fragile ashrams

• Dalits, Muslims, and weavers who sustain the city yet remain invisible

• Women—especially Dalit and Musahar mothers—who carry the burden of caste, class, and gender with extraordinary resilience

It also questions how faith is being commodified and how heritage is being turned into spectacle, often at the cost of the very communities that keep Kashi alive.

This is not just a book—it is a call to reflect on inclusion, equality, and justice, values deeply rooted in the teachings of Mahadev and the collective memory of Kashi.

📖 Get your copy (Free Shipping):

https://frontpagepublications.com/book/kashi/

Published Price: £11.95 | INR 395 | $15.95

Genre: History & Politics

Let us reclaim Kashi as a space of shared humanity.

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