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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

To offset caste tensions, Beed SP asks police to avoid using surnames

March 15, 2025 7:48 am

The directives have been issued by Beed Superintendent of Police Navneet Kanwat, who took charge in January this year following protests over the murder of Massajog sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in December last year.

Manoj Kumar Jha writes: My invisible knapsack of privilege

October 23, 2024 10:36 am

I am painfully aware that it requires unpacking. Dismantling entrenched hierarchies is a moral imperative

Sanjay Srivastava writes: Why we must talk about caste

September 07, 2024 9:48 am

Not talking it only entrenches the existing distribution of cultural and economic wealth

Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | How to look at Manusmriti and the Caste System

September 18, 2024 1:04 pm

Everybody talks about Manusmriti nowadays and links it to the caste system. But what exactly is it? How is it different from earlier Dharma Shastras?

‘Caste is India’s unifying factor’: RSS-linked weekly goes all out to justify caste system

August 11, 2024 10:25 pm

The justification of the caste system by Panchjanya is significant as it comes at a time when the RSS has been at pains to explain it is not against reservations for the depressed classes.

P Chidambaram writes: How are the four ‘castes’ doing?

December 24, 2023 8:30 am

Every year, farmers produce a record-breaking quantity of wheat and rice evidenced by the burgeoning stocks of wheat and rice in the central pool

Opp flags ‘chinks’ in Bihar caste survey: ‘Enumerators didn’t visit our family’

October 09, 2023 3:16 am

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had on Friday assured that the complaints with regard to the survey will be looked into at the district levels.

Mohan Bhagwat’s criticism of caste: Words in search of meaning

February 08, 2023 4:52 am

How does one view his statement in light of anti-conversion laws in several states where BJP holds office? Or the drives against ‘love jihad’?

Pandits or pundits: RSS parses words after Opposition questions chief Mohan Bhagwat's caste remarks

February 07, 2023 7:28 am

At Sant Ravidas event, Bhagwat says caste system ordained by “Pandits”; with Ramcharitmanas row still brewing, RSS says what he meant was “intellectuals” and not “Brahmins”

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