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Topic: Caste

Caste and kotha didn’t go together. It freed many lower caste girls

In 'Nautch Boy', Manish Gaekwad offers a memoir of his life, documenting his experiences as a queer child growing up in a kotha.

Centre issues Census notification, 35 lakh enumerators to carry out exercise in two phases

Census notification came hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired high-level meeting. Houselisting Operation will be carried out in first phase of the exercise.

SubscriberWrites: Caste and Collapse—a Dalit reading of Why Nations Fail

Caste in India, like race in the U.S., shapes power, access, and inequality—yet remains more entrenched, making or breaking the nation's democratic and economic future.

Question nobody’s asking on Meghalaya murder: Why is inter-caste love a rebellion in India?

Sonam Raghuvanshi from Indore, accused of murdering her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, couldn’t marry the man of her choice–seemingly because her lover Raj was from the Kushwaha community.

Varna not decided by birth, Shudra not derogatory—‘The Hindu Manifesto’, launched by RSS chief Bhagwat

In the book, author Swami Vigyananand argues that Hindu scriptures & ancestors didn't discriminate against people based on 'varna, jati, jnati, skin colour, race, gender, language or region'.

SubscriberWrites: Some questions on varna and caste

Caste in India is not race or ethnicity or even Varna, but people belonging to the same profession.

In this TN village, a wall stands between 45 Dalit families & a toilet. It all began with an elopement

Virudhunagar: Cheyyakodi walks over 10 minutes every morning to a barren patch of land to answer nature’s call. After fetching a mug of water from...

This director was told Musahars were ‘evil’. New film tackles their marginalisation, his bias

In 'Swaha', filmmaker Abhilash Sharma tackles discrimination, desperation and exploitation. It is set to be screened at IFFK's 'Indian Cinema Now' section this year.

MN Srinivas gave India a new way to see caste—‘his feet were firmly on the ground’

Sociologist MN Srinivas didn’t just theorise caste, but investigated it in the field. On his death anniversary, a look at the “approachable” scholar and his ground-up approach to academia.

A caste-shaped hole in India Inc’s affirmative action policies & menace of ‘digital arrest’ scam

Other global media reports discuss Modi's Nigeria & upcoming Guyana visit, and the advantages and disadvantages of Gujarat's GIFT city.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.