The suicide of senior Dalit police officer Y Puran Kumar lays bare India’s caste system, showing that even success can’t ...

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 ...
To observe the upcoming centenary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Prafulla Ketkar, Meenakshi Jain and J Nandakumar gave ...
Anand Teltumbde's 'The Caste Con Census' tells that caste, by definition, divides. And in the modern period, how it has ...
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 ...
A provocative new book warns that counting castes may entrench them further instead of dismantling the system.
The organic linkages between caste and gender are a sociological fact. Despite this, there have not been many sustained attempts — either from professional sociologists or well-meaning feminists — to ...
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 ...
A century after the last caste count, India faces hard questions: will counting caste expose inequality—or entrench it under ...
One of the biggest failures of the RSS ideology is its fumbling, and faltering efforts to glorify Hindutva (or Sanatan) even while trying to convince the people that it condemns an integral part of ...
Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...
Prashant Kishor has admitted Jan Suraaj’s electoral failure. He blamed himself for the setback and alleges large-scale ...