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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicDalit education

Topic: Dalit education

Technical education in colonial India ignored Dalit dreams. It trapped them in labour

The attempt to bring the lowest castes into the fold of education — and at the same time contain them within the labouring fold — is a theme across India’s history.

25000 SC/ST/OBC students have quit IITs & central universities but Modi is stuck on temples

Isn’t it incumbent upon the ruling party to draw inspiration from global citadels of learning to stop SC/ST/OBC students from dropping out of IITs?

Entrance to admissions, Indian universities are designed to filter out SC, STs. Learn from US

Indian universities are designed to wedge Dalits vs elite divide. But caste bias runs older, deeper.

Erasure of caste in universities existed during colonialism, but its roots much deeper

IIT Bombay has ruled that the death of Darshit Solanki was due to academics, and not caste; as if the two are independent.

On Camera

What does India owe Rhea Chakraborty? Don’t stop at just an apology

Rhea Chakraborty’s steadfastness is real, but so is the wreckage. She might have made peace with it, but her life was stolen from her.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.