NEW DELHI, Nov. 25 -- With the demise on November 20, 2024, of VT Rajshekar, founder-editor of Dalit Voice, the world has lost a fierce critique of Brahmanism in India and Zionism in the West. Born a Kannada Shudra Shetty, also known as Bunty, on July 17, 1932, Rajshekhar remained an unrelenting campaigner for the liberation of the Dalits, Adivasis, and marginalised communities in India throughout his working life.

Rajshekhar began his journalism with the Deccan Herald, Banglore, and later shifted to the Indian Express, Banglore, for which he reported both from Banglore and Bombay. His fight for the marginalised and workers led to the Indian Express even terminating his services. He was probably the only journalist working in the mainstr...