The question of caste has remained in the shadows in the official rules of conduct as well as within the labour rights movement led by the ASHA workers themselves.
Introduced across six cities, Bihar’s Pink buses were meant to provide safer public transport for women. Yet a year later, the transport department has managed to recruit only six women drivers for 100 buses, most of which are still operated by men.
I have often felt that success for a Dalit person comes with a strange moral demand: be proof without being inconvenient. That is an impossible assignment.
At a Heritage Dialogues talk, author Shahu Patole and food entrepreneur Aruna Tirkey discussed Dalit and Adivasi food traditions and why many still hide or disown what they eat.
Bench says that the claims of allurement surfaced months later after FIR was filed, raising doubts about the basis for invoking Uttar Pradesh’s 2021 anti-conversion law.
BR Ambedkar valued the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. This amendment granted equality to African Americans after the Civil War.
Robert Clive defeated India and didn’t question caste. Mahatma Macaulay envisioned India as a free nation and critiqued caste. That explains why Indians hate one more than the other.
India’s crude import volumes remained largely unchanged in April-July, but higher oil prices sharply increased the import bill, with renewed US-Iran tensions raising the risk of another rise in costs.
ThePrint has learnt that more than one woman fighter pilot were involved in targeting military locations during the 87-hour conflict with Pakistan last year.
Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman
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