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A caste census may not transform the course of electoral politics. But bringing caste contradictions to the fore could give the social justice parties a…

Few have tried to understand the significance of the free bus travel scheme that a handful of states have introduced. In Tamil Nadu the benefits for women have…

IIT Bombay faculty statement against the recent attacks on and targeting of a colleague and social media posts with biased allegations.

The reason why many decent Americans do not see the tragedy of the Palestinians is that Israel is doing to Palestine what white Americans did to the Native…

The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the…

"Subjecting journalists to a concentrated criminal process because the government disapproves of their coverage of national and international affairs is…

A decade after the law to end manual scavenging, thousands of workers continue to clean waste with little protection. The narrow framing of the law contributes…

The unchecked use of antibiotics increases the odds of a pandemic in which infections are resistant to the available stock of antimicrobials.

An open letter by current and former faculty members at the IIM Bangalore calling to defund the hate speech.

India’s Constitution is more robust than the politics of those who call for its replacement.

Mine workers in Rajasthan are perhaps the most vulnerable among manual workers in India’s unorganised sector. They are exposed to various kinds of dust, which…

The judiciary's disinclination to criminalise marital rape flows from a vertical approach to constitutional rights, which fosters a public-private divide…