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.
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.
Anand Teltumbde's 'The Caste Con Census' tells that caste, by definition, divides. And in the modern period, how it has ...
A century after the last caste count, India faces hard questions: will counting caste expose inequality—or entrench it under ...
In crafting its Constitution, India chose not to abolish caste but to leverage it as a framework for social equity through ...
A shocking case of caste discrimination surfaced in the news media at Kerala University, involving a PhD student named Vipin ...
Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...
Stressing that the RSS believes everyone is a Hindu, Mohan Bhagwat said there is no need to eradicate caste but forget it altogether by drawing a "bigger line" as the Sangh does ...
To observe the upcoming centenary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Prafulla Ketkar, Meenakshi Jain and J Nandakumar gave ...
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 ...