Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based framework, social conditioning makes its presence felt ...

Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

It was some time after the murder of George Floyd, after the emotional journey of making the 2019 limited series “When They See Us,” after the national reckoning that came with Black Lives Matter, ...

Periyar’s ideas on caste and equality are reaching Gen Z through social media and digital platforms. Young people engage with his work to challenge inherited hierarchies and advocate for social ...

Cinema has long been seen as a powerful mirror to society — reflecting its values, discomforts, aspirations, and complexities. But when films delve into deep-rooted societal structures like caste, ...

Diving into the structural and enduring nature of racism and inequality in the United States, Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson spoke at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’s Annual ...