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Friday, July 25, 2025
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Topic: Caste

Parayan, poramboku and devadasi: The dark casteist history of these common words

Does the cleansing of language and old text amount to a dangerous process of whitewashing our ugly past?

Ambedkarism seeks to end casteism progressively, digital Ambedkarites are failing at that

It is necessary to understand why neither of the great leaders, Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram, were branded as extremists, writes Devashish Jarariya

Are India’s ‘new-age reformers’ prepared to abolish caste system and do manual scavenging?

The unintentional results India's anti-caste, modern 'Social Reformers' could achieve.

Painting the Bhima-Koregaon incident as a pan-India Dalit assertion is a mistake

Dalit assertion is not making the upper castes anxious since it comes in the light of deepening of our democracy, which has been a gradual process.

It’s 2018, and atrocities against Dalits are still a reality in India

Crimes against Scheduled Castes have been on the rise. 2017 also saw enough examples to show that this malaise isn't going away soon.

Bhima-Koregaon fight isn’t against the upper-castes, it is against Brahmins and Brahminism

Media and academicians portray Dalits as victims in the incident at Bhima-Koregaon. The battle that happened there was a fight against the Brahmins.

The Brahmin Peshwas are trying to settle a 200-year-old score with the Mahars

Today’s conflict has little or nothing to do with the British, it’s between the Brahmin Peshwas and Mahars. At present, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra is a Brahmin.

सलमान और उनके साथियों के लिए बदसूरत या प्रतिभाहीन होना भंगी होने के बराबर है

यदि आप 2017 के जातिवाद को 2018 में ले जाने पर आमादा नहीं हों, तो यह शायद एक अच्छा समय है कि आप भंगी शब्द का उच्चारण करना बंद कर दें- याशिका दत्त

Mandal is reborn, minus the Muslim factor

Identity politics is returning to the centre stage and political parties and next-generation leaders are rushing to carve out a slice.

Caste is back as Gujarat poll issue, BJP’s experiments have failed

The failure of the BJP-RSS dispensation in Gujarat to read caste correctly and understand its dynamic political character has led to this present predicament.

On Camera

Mumbai blasts acquittal must not set a precedent. It’ll hurt both agencies and judiciary

Several terror attack cases have been concluded by following the methods Maharashtra ATS used in the 7/11 case. It’s surprising that the high court didn’t find them worthy of legal scrutiny.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.