This episode was originally published on June 12, 2024 as “The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation.” Four dalit women in grayscale, over an orange colorized background. Their bare chests ...

New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Caste Con Census brings to the fore a long history of disconnect between claims on the one hand and ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Vikrant Bhise, "Quest of Existence of Being" (2023), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Anant Art Gallery) NOIDA, India — A pyramidal arrangement of one hundred ...

The outcry and controversy about the UGC’s Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026, is something which needs to be looked at from different perspectives.