casteism

‘Dhadak 2’ and ‘Saiyyara’: Two romances, miles apart

August 09, 2025 11:30 am

While ‘Saiyyara’ is a somewhat traditional film, where masculine self-pity disguises itself as a romance, ‘Dhadak 2’ dares to challenge its audience by making visible the violence at the heart of a caste-based society

Principal supervisor, two others accused of using casteist language, abusing assistant teacher, acquitted

May 20, 2025 9:48 pm

The principal again in March 2013 entered a classroom where the complainant was teaching and abused her, using casteist slurs.

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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.

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She Said: I love my surname. It just took a while

January 05, 2025 12:30 pm

My Instagram handle now has ‘Adivasi’ written and my name in Santhali script, Ol Chiki. A little late but I grew out of seeing myself as ‘other’. When I see my name today, I don’t see humiliation or ridicule anymore.

Made on a nominal budget of about Rs 12 lakh, director Prasanth Eezhavan raised Rs 6 lakh for Oru Jaathi Pillerishtta through crowdfunding.

Prasanth Eezhavan breaks down politics behind his anti-EWS reservation film Oru Jaathi Pillerishtta: 'If 'Supriya Menon presents' is acceptable...'

December 19, 2024 5:35 pm

Made on a nominal budget of about Rs 12 lakh, director Prasanth Eezhavan raised Rs 6 lakh for Oru Jaathi Pillerishtta through crowdfunding.

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

Zomato's 'pure veg food' scheme is pure casteism. Here's why many people don't get that

March 22, 2024 7:27 pm

Food in India is never an innocent choice. Zomato has acknowledged a faultline in society — and chosen to exploit it for profit

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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

Tavleen Singh writes: A caste census is casteism

December 17, 2023 8:18 pm

Extreme poverty and casteism have long been the material that our political leaders use to create their vote banks but why have the Dalit groups who attacked me last week not done more? Is it because their compassion is fake or because they have learned how to exploit these most deprived of India’s citizens just like politicians?

With the BJP, development and prosperity for all — irrespective of caste

December 15, 2023 10:01 am

The strongest, and the only, way to dismantle caste is making it irrelevant. PM Modi is doing it by assigning a new identity to the 140 crore people of India – growth leaders of the world