Caste

The Silence and Symbolism of Hate

Hate crime laws can be effective only if the legal system engages with how strategic silences and symbolic language often render hate speech elusive, slippery, and impenetrable to legal consequences.
▶04-Aug-2022

The Smoke and Mirrors of Casteism in the US

Convoluted arguments that equate anti-caste activism in the US with 'Hindu-phobia' seek to reinstate casteist norms that dominant-caste immigrants are accustomed to.
▶08-Jun-2022
Sonja Thomas

The End of a Political Model in Uttar Pradesh

The BSP’s strategy of combining a core base with moneyed candidates no longer works in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP has crafted a new winning formula that uses only elements of this old model.
▶05-Apr-2022
Gilles Verniers
Hyderabad High Court | Rajesh Pamnani

How Income and Caste Can Affect CLAT Performance

The results of India’s tough Common Law Admission Test are unequal in socio-economic terms, highlighting the deleterious effect that a candidate’s low income and a low caste can have on performance.
▶28-Mar-2022
Pragyanshu Gautam

A New Civilisational Discourse for India

A right-wing nationalist agenda would make us believe Dwijas alone were civilisation builders in India. But Indian civilisation began with the Harappan culture, whose inheritors are the present-day…
▶08-Feb-2022
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

A Suitable Girl?

The age at which Indian women marry has been rising over the decades; making 21 the legal minimum will aim to fix something that is not broken. It will cause harm, pushing many women into zones of…
▶02-Feb-2022
Mary E John

Raindrop in the Drought

Godavari Dange developed a model of farming that enabled vulnerable women farmers in drought-struck Marathwada to stay food secure. Her life story captures the enormity of the region’s crisis, as…
▶02-Feb-2022
Reetika Revathy Subramanian, Maitri Dore

A Nava Karnataka as Part of ‘New India’

Karnataka’s land reforms and creative backward-caste alliances in the 1970s and 1980s broke the dominance of landed castes and spurred innovative development programmes. Today, the state is forsaking…
▶31-Jan-2022
Janaki Nair, A R Vasavi
Book
Book Review

AIIMS and the Failure of Imagining Healthcare

The pursuit of 'excellence' at AIIMS has become a rush towards greater specialisation, foiling the institute's founding mandate to produce doctors to serve India's masses.
▶19-Jan-2022
George Thomas

The Myth of the Meritorious Doctor

Reservations are — wrongly — blamed for encouraging mediocrity in the medical profession. The historical record shows that the floundering foundations of the profession were laid by doctors who came…
▶02-Dec-2021
Kiran Kumbhar