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TopicArticle 15

Topic: Article 15

New backward class lists to be drawn, 50% ceiling stays — what SC Maratha quota verdict means

Ruling that state govts don't have power to identify socially and educationally backward classes, SC laid the groundwork for new SEBC lists to be drawn for all states & UTs by the President.

Chetan Bhagat likes the three-language formula, Swara Bhasker says Article 15 ‘gives her hope’

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Anger was the reason I made Article 15, plot was just a tool, writes Anubhav Sinha

I did not expect this kind of popular reaction from Article 15. Ayushmann Khurrana always believed it would.

Ayushmann Khurrana’s Article 15 wants you to believe caste system came from outer space

No matter how many Ambedkar statues it shows, Article 15 doesn’t call out the continued Brahmin hegemony in power circles.

Article 15 takes off on Badaun, Una cases, stirs debate on depiction of trauma in Bollywood

ThePrint speaks to filmmakers, victims' families and psychologists to understand why films on real-life traumas are made and their possible impact.

Ayushmann Khurrana’s Article 15 will make ‘upper’ castes uneasy – as it should

Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15 has all the ingredients of a good film, but stops short of being great.

6 things an anti-caste woke must be mindful of in Ayushmann Khurrana’s new film Article 15

The movie ignores the fact that caste has changed its location and now resides in top universities and power corridors of the country.

Disappointed with govt for leaving Section 377 decision to ‘court’s wisdom’ : Justice Chandrachud

The SC Judge, who was part of bench that decided to decriminalise gay sex, questioned the government for not taking a call on sensitive issues such as the recent challenge to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.

Expanding Article 15 to include discrimination against disabled people

From GST to buses, trains and flights, policies ignoring the disabled community constitute active discrimination.

On Camera

Young India’s cultural assertion isn’t conservatism—it’s course correction

Indian Gen Z is assertive because boomers and millennials were docile and apologetic. We are Indian, and we are proud.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.