A caste census is increasingly demanded by OBCs and other marginalised groups in India to address historical inequalities and exclusion exacerbated by neoliberal policies, says Surinder S. Jodhka ...
Politics surrounding the Brahmin community has intensified in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In UP, the Samajwadi Party raised the ...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said caste today largely survives for selfish interests and ...
A series of political, cultural and administrative developments in recent weeks point to the genesis of a fresh phase of ...
NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...
Senior Congress leader and leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday flagged concerns over caste ...
Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought ...
Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by the ...
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said caste now exists largely for selfish interests and political purposes as its traditional occupational basis has disappeared. Responding to questions during an ...
Mohan Bhagwat said the RSS will support reservations as long as caste discrimination exists and recommended that every family ...
Opinion

Injecting caste into the campus

Before diving into the raging UGC controversy gripping the nation, I would like to share a personal note as a teacher-one that I often repeat to my students.