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TopicOccupation-based caste exploitation

Topic: Occupation-based caste exploitation

Dalits are doing the work doctors reject—‘No postmortem without a safai karmachari’

Thousands of Dalit sanitation workers across India are forced to perform autopsies in place of doctors. ‘This practice is even worse than manual scavenging.’

The Great Indian Sanitation Scam. General castes bag govt jobs, Valmikis do the work

Across India, proxy, ‘badli’, or ‘ewaj’ work is rampant in sanitation jobs. ‘They want our jobs but they don’t want to do our jobs.’

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Role reversal? Congress is adopting BJP’s best practices as the latter learns the worst

The BJP’s drift contrasts sharply with Rahul Gandhi’s organisational push, street politics and growing appeal among young voters.

Bloomberg’s oil columnist got an EV. A bad omen for big petroleum?

For as long as the Mid East & Russia-Ukraine wars continue, the trajectory of future oil consumption will matter little. What’s important today is the flow of barrels, writes Javier Blas.

Drones for IAF are not revolutionary but evolutionary, says IAF chief

IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh has ruled out a separate drone force, saying that UAVs must operate with fighters and other existing technology.

India has always been a hard state under Gandhian cover. Nehru to Modi, leaders have reinforced it

Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.