It is time to rethink reservations. What is needed is nothing less than a paradigm shift where we focus on economic rather ...

The steep rise in caste discrimination complaints in Indian universities has revealed a troubling paradox. Even as regulatory ...

Mahatma Gandhi has insisted that social renewal must begin with reforming caste structures. His words have argued that ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

Chalam has advocated for caste enumeration in the population census. Mr. Chalam was speaking at the ‘caste census - ...

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...

Radhika Vemula & Abeda Tadvi channelled the grief of losing their children to caste discrimination by filing a PIL.

The new UGC guidelines are here, and the debates have started on the very fundamental issue of whether they will reduce caste ...

It is a sad precedent of our times to include only the lower castes as passive sufferers for no reason at all whenever a new ...

India’s constitutional vision of reservations was never meant to become a permanent battlefield between communities. It was designed as a bridge - a temporary corrective mechanism to ensure ...

The Supreme Court’s interim return to the 2012 UGC rules reveals a deeper discomfort with caste-based remedies. The pause ...

India’s electoral system was born not from consensus but from coercion and compromise, a reality revisited by author and ...