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AI has learned caste — and caste bias. And India is deploying it faster than it can address the problem

February 19, 2026 1:12 pm

Whether AI 'knows' caste is not the most pressing question. Before these systems subtly transform into infrastructure, determining who is perceived as employable, credible, risky, or deserving, the question is whether India will measure what it deploys

Protests against UGC equity guidelines invoke hypothetical situations, not lived realities of marginalised students

January 29, 2026 7:22 pm

They are marked by virulent overreaction and aggressive posturing while framing Savarnas as under siege. And this finds a sympathetic audience among the older and institutionally placed Savarnas in media, society and even the judiciary

IIT-Delhi’s Durban moment: Why IITs must make space for caste and race scholarship

January 29, 2026 1:05 pm

If we want universities that serve democracy and help build the nation, we must defend spaces where caste, race, and structural injustices can be studied openly

While the government said the changes aim to bring greater fairness and accountability to higher education institutes, many critics fear they may deepen social divisions and pose fresh challenges on university campuses ugc

UGC Regulation on discrimination is a first in India. And it is welcome

January 29, 2026 5:34 pm

That the rebirth of the 2012 regulations in its new 2026 avatar is indeed a significant shift is indicated by the fact that a regime which generally takes pride in undoing what its predecessor did is actually reiterating an earlier policy

Over 20 researchers, including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and AI researchers at various levels, are involved in the experiment.

Post-PhD trauma: We are treated as an ‘overqualified’ but ‘inexperienced’ lot. This must change

January 23, 2026 10:15 am

Transparent hiring practices, accountability in recruitment, recognition of doctoral research as professional experience, and institutional support for post-PhD transitions are necessities

'Bison Kaalamaadan' shows that the body is political long before it becomes athletic

December 27, 2025 7:24 am

What Selvaraj ultimately captures is a simple but unsettling truth: Love, in such worlds, is not merely emotional sustenance but a survival strategy

Aanchal Mamidawar's family killed her boyfriend. Indian laws must ensure couples are protected

December 24, 2025 4:20 pm

Her conviction in disowning her family, and her vow to now reside with Saksham’s family, puts to shame anyone submitting to regressive social practices and family pressures

Who owns Sanskrit? In Dalit scholar’s allegations of caste discrimination in Kerala, old fault lines of privilege and exclusion

November 14, 2025 1:17 pm

It is vital to study the language and its literary archive critically from an anti-caste perspective to understand the history and dharmic jurisprudence of caste, as well as to understand what, and whom, the archive does not talk about

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‘If caste assertion continues, people who call themselves Hindus will cease to exist…’: Madhya Pradesh High Court

October 18, 2025 10:55 am

Court took suo motu cognisance of an incident from Damoh district, where a person from OBC community was forced to wash the feet of an upper caste man for allegedly sharing an AI-generated meme

Madhya Pradesh police have begun investigating an incident of caste-based humiliation in Damoh district

AI image sparks caste tensions in Madhya Pradesh village, youth ‘forced to apologise to Brahmins, wash man’s feet’

October 12, 2025 12:12 pm

A video of Purushottam Kushwaha washing Anuj Pandey’s feet and apologising to the Brahmin community has been shared widely on social media, following which police have said they’re taking preventive action to maintain law and order