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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

The killing of Kavin Selvaganesh: When caste dictates whom to love

August 25, 2025 4:48 pm

Crimes against inter-caste couples have been framed largely as a cultural issue rooted in traditional and parochial practices, obscuring the fact that both caste and patriarchal violence are still an everyday reality in “modern” life

Kavin Selva Ganesh’s murder shows why the ‘creamy layer’ is not protected from caste violence

August 20, 2025 11:54 am

When caste can kill a Dalit man who ‘made it’, who had education, a secure job, and the opportunities reservation is meant to create, then the argument that such people no longer ‘need’ this protection rings hollow

Karnataka man arrested for daughter’s honour killing; crime detected 7 months after murder

April 29, 2025 12:46 pm

The honour killing of the minor girl came to light recently after a Karnataka court directed the girl’s father to produce her before it.

Gujarat: Dalit woman killed thought ‘withdrawing case could dent image of family, community’

November 29, 2023 11:31 am

Gautam (25) was attacked by four persons in 2020 allegedly for "associating with people outside their caste".

Anshul Avijit writes: My grandfather, Jagjivan Ram, drank from the ‘savarna’ pitcher. It’s a miracle he didn’t get killed

August 16, 2022 9:14 pm

Babu Jagjivan Ram one day drank water from the prohibited pitcher, faced violence and boycott. A hundred years later -- after freedom, democracy, and a million pledges to equity -- a nine-year-old boy from Rajasthan got killed for that very reason.