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Sachchidanand Sinha's death has snapped the last living link of the Lohia stream of socialism

November 24, 2025 12:20 pm

A multilingual intellectual and principled activist, Sinha journeyed from mill worker to editor of Mankind, shaping debates on democracy, imperialism, and social justice

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

‘Which caste is development?’ A citizen’s question cuts to the heart of Bihar’s political stagnation

November 03, 2025 5:57 pm

Bihar’s political consciousness has become trapped in the language of caste, while development remains an abstract promise, distant and impersonal

Sudha Murty and her invisible caste: Why Brahmins don’t want to be counted

October 27, 2025 6:09 am

When a caste census is mooted as a tool to better the affirmative action policies in the country, the onus of arguing for the caste census becomes a lower-caste pursuit

Caste, religion and hate: The questions ‘Homebound’ makes us face

October 18, 2025 1:22 pm

We need more films like ‘Homebound’. Films that don’t flinch from caste, faith, or inequality; that speak plainly but think deeply; that trust viewers to feel, reckon, and change. Because cinema isn’t escape. It’s confrontation

Banning caste rallies won't create a casteless society

September 23, 2025 3:33 pm

The ideal of a casteless society is noble. But we cannot legislate caste away by merely banning its symbols; we must dismantle the structures of inequity that give it power

UP govt order ‘banning’ caste rallies: SP calls move cosmetic, BJP allies worried

September 23, 2025 7:35 am

Parties, including BJP allies, ask who will decide use or misuse of caste. First test of government resolve could be October 9 BSP rally

What Kerala temple purification incident tells us about the state’s flawed progressive politics

August 27, 2025 6:08 pm

The absence of a robust ideological movement to challenge it further emboldens puritan hegemony

Whose temple is it? The forgotten history of Dalit priesthood in Rajasthan

August 19, 2025 2:17 pm

Recent attack on a Dalit priest at Bhilwara shows how caste burdens exist despite prevalence of centuries-old practices

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, caste and cinema: A reckoning in Kerala

August 05, 2025 5:35 pm

His comments on state support for SC, ST and women filmmakers reflect a deeper problem. Malayalam cinema, like many 'cultural' fields, remains an upper-caste bastion where dominant narratives are perpetuated, certain ways of seeing and knowing are universalised, and all other perspectives and histories are buried

The tattooed rebels: Chhattisgarh's Ramnamis fight caste with full-bodied 'Ram Ram' tattoos

January 13, 2016 9:10 am

The Ramnami Samaj is a religious movement founded by Scheduled Caste Ram devotees in the late 19th century in Chhattisgarh. Denied entry to temples and forced to use separate wells, these low-caste Hindus first tattooed their bodies and faces more than 100 years ago as an act of defiance and devotion.

Why the Maratha agitation keeps coming back

June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

The Marathas, a third of the population of Maharashtra, began to agitate for their demands a little less than two years ago. While the current phase of renewed protests ended, the agitation is far from over.

Dalit man’s wedding procession passes through Thakur village

June 22, 2020 6:22 pm

After a struggle of six months, a Dalit groom’s wedding procession passes through a Thakur-dominated village in Uttar Pradesh.

Why Is I&B Min Refusing Permission To Show Films On Caste, Kashmir And JNU ?

June 22, 2020 7:00 pm

Women must not be barred from entering temple: Mahant Narendra Giri

January 27, 2016 4:30 am

Allahabad, Jan 27 (ANI): Speaking on the Shani Shignapur temple issue, Akhara Parishad President Mahant Narendra Giri on Wednesday said that women must not be barred from entering the temple asserting that preventing them from doing so, was not right in any manner. He added that people must be allowed to visit temple and offer prayers irrespective of caste, creed or gender since it is their right to do so.

Govt. following 'Divisive India' over 'Digital India': Derek O' Brien

January 20, 2016 9:35 am

Hyderabad, Jan 20 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday alleged that the NDA Government is following a 'Divisive India' policy by dividing students on the basis of caste.He added that on the one hand, Centre talks of 'Digital India' while on the other it plays politics of caste with students. He was addressing students protesting against the recent suicide of a Dalit scholar in the Hyderabad University.