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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicCaste-based discrimination

Topic: Caste-based discrimination

I once supported SC quota for ‘Dalit’ Muslims and Christians, but here’s why I don’t anymore

Caste-based discrimination is common across South Asia, but untouchability exists primarily within Hinduism. Muslims and Christians practising untouchability contradict the tenets of their religions.

MP govt’s ‘sensitive approach’ & ‘double engine session’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Suicide note’ found in IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki’s room indicates ‘caste-based harassment’

Note recovered by SIT probing 1st year student's death last month 'names a batchmate'. Initially, 'poor academic performance' was cited as reason for Solanki's 'death by suicide'.

IIT-Madras professor writes to PM Modi over ‘caste discrimination’ in institute, demands probe

Vipin P. Veetil, who has protested such ‘bias’ since 2021, alleges ‘sabotage’ of recruitment of SC/ST/OBC faculty by upper caste professors, threatens to go on hunger strike.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.