We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

Caste Never Went Away: Violence, Humiliation and Resistance Still Shape Our Lives In our 75th Independence Day special issue, Outlook examined how the caste system endures—and what it will take ...

The “caste system” is still depicted by media like the BBC as a horrifying straitjacket, that shackles Hindus lifelong at birth. The belief infects virtually every liberal and every human ...

The caste census must be viewed beyond binaries of “for or against” to envision a more transformative idea — as a foundational tool for what might be called a social management approach to ...

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral part of Hinduism. It even assigned religion to an individual based on its own ...

Caste enumeration is a necessary exercise that will inevitably change the composition and politics of this social identity marker. Such a headcount wouldn’t just record reality, but may actually ...

Bengaluru: The govt's decision to conduct the socio-educational survey afresh, commonly referred to as a caste census, has stumbled at the starting line. Despite cabinet approval on June 12 and a ...

However, this has not been confirmed by the university. "Asking candidates to specify their caste is unconstitutional. It is derogatory, too," said Latika Gupta, a faculty member at DU.

The Madras High Court has called upon the Tamil Nadu government to issue a Government Order (G.O.) empowering the revenue officials to issue ‘no caste, no community’ certificates to ...

If a particular caste is most backward in every single of the 42 parameters, it gets 126 points which is the maximum score any caste can get. And the maximum the least backward caste can get is 0.

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, which includes Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU, has completed groundwork for distribution of tickets for the Bihar Assembly election expected to be held ...

KOTTAYAM: Asserting that the caste census announced by the Union government would divide people on the basis of caste and religion, the influential Nair Service Society (NSS) is planning to ...