The suicide of senior Dalit police officer Y Puran Kumar lays bare India’s caste system, showing that even success can’t ...
A provocative new book warns that counting castes may entrench them further instead of dismantling the system.
Indian filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan is thanking to the legendary director Martin Scorsese for lending a gentle guiding hand in ...
Rajgruha Chowk is quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. The police officers sitting guard outside tell us that the museum is closed.
Opinion

Caste count

India’s decision to conduct a full caste census in 2027 marks a profound turning point in how the nation confronts its most enduring social hierarchy.
In crafting its Constitution, India chose not to abolish caste but to leverage it as a framework for social equity through ...
Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...
A shocking case of caste discrimination surfaced in the news media at Kerala University, involving a PhD student named Vipin ...
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said he had established the Kaginele Peetha as the voice of all oppressed communities and reiterated his lifelong opposition to the RSS, the caste ...
The NDA won 202 seats in Bihar by building a coalition across upper castes, non-Yadav OBCs, EBCs and Dalits. This social base ...
Caste was skillfully transplanted from feudalism into the fertile ground of the modern Constitution, revived and legitimised ...
Caste segregation has been a persistent issue in Indian society, raising questions for centuries. Who really creates these ...