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Satish Deshpande
The writer teaches sociology at Delhi University.
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Caste census in a fraught political moment: Selfie of the nationSubscriber Only
June 16, 2025 08:05 IST
Coming Census will be unique. Questions raised by caste count and delimitation will be answered in a particular political conjuncture
Mon, Jun 16, 2025
Internal inequalities must stay at the heart of sub-quota conversationSubscriber Only
October 14, 2024 00:25 IST
It is distressing that arguments used against reservation earlier are being used now to oppose sub-categorisation within Scheduled Castes.
Mon, Oct 14, 2024
With Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur, the BJP is co-opting social justice agendaSubscriber Only
January 27, 2024 07:30 IST
It is a shrewd move, doesn't cede anything substantial to 'backward' castes
Sat, Jan 27, 2024
In a time where anticolonialism is parochialism, looking at J P S Uberoi’s swarajSubscriber Only
January 05, 2024 07:19 IST
To appreciate why JPS and his brand of indigenous knowledge will be missed we only have to look at what passes in the name of indigeneity today
Fri, Jan 05, 2024
From America to India: Academic freedom is misunderstoodSubscriber Only
December 13, 2023 16:28 IST
Universities, research centres and other knowledge-producing institutions are entrusted with the task of thinking on behalf of society. Their job is to ensure that the ideas we use are the best ones available
Thu, Dec 14, 2023
Without a caste count, there can be no honest politicsSubscriber Only
October 04, 2023 07:45 IST
Caste differences are real differences. True political unity is the negotiated overcoming of differences, not their denial or suppression
Wed, Oct 04, 2023
In these times, what meaning could a new Parliament have?Subscriber Only
September 23, 2023 07:00 IST
Power is concentrated in a single supreme leader who is popular amongst a dominant segment of the population defined in religious, racial-ethnic or other cultural terms. This form of regime is invariably accompanied by the erosion of all the institutions that modern democracies have relied on.
Sat, Sep 23, 2023
Satish Deshpande writes: Can ‘caste politics’ save the Opposition?Subscriber Only
April 11, 2023 12:26 IST
Satish Deshpande writes: It is not surprising that the All India Federation for Social Justice is the initiative of the DMK, the party with the longest history of “caste politics”.
Wed, Apr 12, 2023
SC verdict on EWS: A new chapter in the long saga of the appeasement of India’s most powerful minoritySubscriber Only
November 08, 2022 15:42 IST
The EWS constitutional amendment, now sanctioned by Supreme Court, aims for and struggles to avoid stating openly what it is — reservation for the Hindu upper castes
Wed, Nov 09, 2022
On reservations for Dalit Christians and Muslims, a question of government’s intentSubscriber Only
September 19, 2022 19:17 IST
Satish Deshpande writes: A fresh study on caste among Christians and Muslims is needed, but the existing evidence already shows that the Dalits among them suffer from the same kind of social discrimination as Hindu or Sikh Dalits
Wed, Sep 21, 2022
Kartavya Path is about political hegemony, the imprint of Modi rajSubscriber Only
September 08, 2022 16:40 IST
Satish Despande writes: Renaming of Rajpath is an attempt to represent state power to the public, in a sanctimonious manner filled with a for-show hyper-morality
Fri, Sep 09, 2022
As students gear up for university, the devil is in the NEP’s detailsSubscriber Only
July 05, 2022 19:14 IST
Satish Deshpande writes: Higher education in India needs reform but FYUP, NEP may be providing false hope to the young
Wed, Jul 06, 2022
Today’s hate crimes are bitter harvests of fields cultivated for a centurySubscriber Only
January 14, 2022 03:33 IST
🔴 Satish Deshpande writes: Since it began in the 1920s, the larger Hindutva project had only been battery-powered. The Modi-Shah regime has plugged this project into the power of the state.
Fri, Jan 14, 2022
Gandhi, Savarkar and the irrelevance of factsSubscriber Only
October 25, 2021 03:48 IST
Satish Deshpande writes: The truth is not the same as what is politically relevant and convenient. This is what critics of Rajnath Singh’s recent remarks have missed.
Tue, Oct 26, 2021
Who’s afraid of a caste census?Subscriber Only
August 13, 2021 03:00 IST
Satish Deshpande writes: The most powerful and the most pampered minority in Indian society is composed largely of the upper castes. A caste census will make it visible.
Sat, Aug 14, 2021
Reservation debate: a new, post-myth eraSubscriber Only
March 15, 2021 03:10 IST
With the Supreme Court reconsidering the ceiling of 50 per cent for reservations, we can move beyond binaries and ask difficult questions about power-sharing.
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
Why we must protest both Vikas Dubey murder, risking of Varavara Rao’s lifeSubscriber Only
July 24, 2020 03:55 IST
The fact that Dubey was yet to be charged under any law while Rao has been charged under a special law should not blind us to the essential similarity they share — the state took unfair advantage of its custodial power over them. But the real danger such cases pose is that they always carry in their background the suggestion of popular support, which sometimes ripens into an explicit claim.
Fri, Jul 24, 2020
Online education must supplement, not replace, physical sites of learningSubscriber Only
May 27, 2020 04:44 IST
We have long ignored the vital role public educational institutions play as exemplary sites of social inclusion and relative equality. In Indian conditions, this role is arguably even more important than the scholastic role.
Wed, May 27, 2020
Four years after Rohith Vemula died, the public university is still riddled with crises old and newSubscriber Only
January 17, 2020 04:00 IST
The erosion of autonomy began well before the current regime. Much of it was ceded by academics rather than snatched by bureaucrats or politicians.
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Like election manifestos, draft NEP is merely a statement of intentSubscriber Only
June 14, 2019 00:00 IST
The nation awaits the new born DNEP’s janmakundali to reveal its future. But we already know one of its possible epitaphs: It was just too good to be true.
Fri, Jun 14, 2019
Quotas, theirs and oursSubscriber Only
January 11, 2019 00:05 IST
Being poor is different from belonging to lower castes, even though most poor belong to lower castes.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Strangers in our midstSubscriber Only
December 27, 2018 00:13 IST
The decisive question for democracy in India: How should it deal with citizens who think differently and are annoying or inconvenient to ‘us’?
Thu, Dec 27, 2018
Worse than UGCSubscriber Only
July 04, 2018 00:05 IST
Institutions like the UGC are meant to embody this principle and are designed to act as buffers, insulating universities from the massive financial and political power of the state.
Wed, Jul 04, 2018
Mimicking the enemySubscriber Only
March 23, 2018 00:15 IST
The Congress’s main issue is not dynasty: It is the absence of a distinct and decisive political agenda
Fri, Mar 23, 2018
A point of collisionSubscriber Only
January 08, 2018 01:00 IST
Bhima Koregaon is where three political projects of our times clash even as they try to collude with each other
Mon, Jan 08, 2018
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