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Shikha Mukerjee | Caste, data & sub-quotas: No wriggle room for PM

Shikha Mukerjee | Caste, data & sub-quotas: No wriggle room for PM

Childish truculence is writ all over the Narendra Modi-led new minority government’s reaction that the water leaking in...

8 Aug 2024 9:28 AM IST

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi

CP Joshi apologises for 'Brahmin' remark after facing flak from Rahul

Joshi had said only Brahmins know of Hinduism whereas PM Modi, Uma Bharti, others being from 'lower castes' know...

23 Nov 2018 1:05 PM IST

Police have filed a case based on the complaint of Kesavulu. Further investigation is on. (Photo: ANI)

Andhra man kills daughter for marrying boy from another caste

Later the kin of Kesavulu came to know the matter and attacked Bhaskar Naidu's house, which caused tension in the...

29 Jun 2019 9:35 AM IST

The experience of citizenship is not democratic for all citizens.

What caste are you, Corona?

For the middle class the care of the self that social distancing requires does not include taking care for their own...

22 March 2020 12:31 AM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh talks to the media at Parliament House during ongoing Monsoon Session, in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Rajnath rejects 'rumours' on Agnipath caste factor

Several Opposition leaders had alleged that the Army was using caste as a factor for recruitment under the Agnipath...

20 July 2022 1:52 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Mazdooron Ka Hit Mazdooron Ko Samarpit programme in Indore, via video conference, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. (PTI Photo)

For me, there are 4 Jatis'- poor, youth, women and farmers: PM Modi

The Prime Minister said for any government to become powerful, its institutions play an important role

26 Dec 2023 1:37 AM IST

Almost every political party swears by Dr Ambedkar even though the position of Dalits, minorities and other marginalized sections has barely improved since his death. (DC Photo: P Narasimha Murthy)

Revisiting Dr Ambedkar in contemporary India

The privileged sections have shaped a limiting image of Ambedkar

16 April 2020 10:57 PM IST

A worker cover his face with a mask as he takes a nap outside a closed shop in a market in New Delhi. Thousands of workers in major Indian cities have lost their jobs due to the shutdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (DC Photo; Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The shutdown is a device to shut out the Dalits

All those who have been nudged to the margins by the Covid-19 lockdown are invariably Dalit

29 April 2020 12:40 AM IST

Acting on a complaint filed by the father of the deceased, police today arrested 17 people, charging seven of them for murder. (Representational Image)

17 arrested for inter-caste clash in Saharnpur

While one person, identified as Sumit Singh, was killed, 15 others, including a police official, was injured in the...

7 May 2017 10:44 AM IST

They left a suicide note stating that they were ending their lives as their families were not letting them stay together because of different castes. (Representational Image)

Couple marry despite opposition from parents over caste, commit...

The couple belonged to the same village, but were from different castes, a fact that was unnacceptable to both sets of...

6 May 2017 2:55 PM IST

Not many are lucky enough to be supported by their families in their quest for love or are rebellious enough to fight back and escape the rigid system.

Match made in office

Caste and religion already divide the marriage market, With Linkedin playing matchmaker, would it become harder to cross...

31 July 2017 12:07 AM IST

Indias Untouchables By Gwendolyn Simpson Chabrier Grove Press, pp. 272, Rs 1,088

Book review Hypocrisies of caste: A timely reminder to Indians

The book comes across as one about caste as seen through a Western lens.

21 April 2017 1:35 AM IST