Amit Kapoor: Is He a Caste Activist?

Amitai Basu: Babon was always in the picture, but as often the case with Congress leaders, he was in Congress earlier. He also weighed in all this caste issue. In fact, Kipra didn't even exist. It was only posted the CA protest and the subsequent NRC issue that we emerged in the Northeast. And our approach here was very different from the mainland.