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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

Family members of Darshan Solanki, who allegedly died by suicide at IIT Mumbai due to caste discrimination, hold a candle light vigil in Gujarat's Maninagar. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)

What Tavleen Singh doesn't get: Reservation is the oxygen for my uphill journey

December 15, 2023 1:20 pm

Reservation is a tool that enables access to those for whom it has been long denied. Until caste discrimination persists, there is no question of withdrawing caste-based affirmative action

Dalit man's 'honour killing' in Hyderabad: Best friend, lover's brother among 10 arrested

March 06, 2023 10:52 am

The victim, Devarakonda Harish Kumar, 28, and Manisha, 25, belonging to a backward community, eloped on February 22 and upon learning about their whereabouts, Manisha’s elder brother B Deendayal, 22, conspired and executed the murder.

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.