Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle ...

Modern caste rigidity is as much a product of social conformity and colonial enumeration as of textual tradition. Democracy ...

National caste census has triggered a Bhumihar reckoning. The community in Bihar is waging a new battle for colonial-era ...

China and India are often compared as if they are two rising nation states. That is misleading. China is first and foremost a state that swallowed a civilisatio ...

Bhagwat, speaking at a Sangh centenary event in Mumbai, urged people not to give “infiltrators” any employment and to be more "vigilant." ...

Yet, the BJP has failed to convert religious Hindus into political Hindus in Tamil Nadu. This is because the socio-religious ...

Despite these formal legal protections, in many areas, Dalits are either unaware of their legal rights or don't have the resources to seek redress, thus discriminatory treatment continues. In India, ...

The kerfuffle over UGC's equity rules has settled down. But, the caste debate once again risks sliding into high-minded ...

I was intrigued and surprised to read a short piece written by Anup Tanaeja titled Untouchability Is Repugnant To Spirit Of Hinduism in a column “The Speaking Tree” in “The Times of India”, dated 30th ...

SHIVAMOGGA: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that his government would press the Union Government to increase reservation for Scheduled Castes and Sch ...

Saturday 31st Junuary, 2026 The government has ignored the ultimatum given by the Government Medical Officers Association ...

China and India are often compared as if they are two rising nation states. That is misleading. China is first and foremost a ...