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Caste

Part I: The caste question after a death

When a student dies on an Indian campus, the question is no longer how it could have been stopped, but what his caste was.

Our courts have stopped asking why

From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was said

How Hindustan Times selectively framed IIT death data

This week’s news cycle is revolving around the unfortunate suicide of a young student at IIT Bombay. It has been alleged that he was...

Brahmanical patriarchy: the making of a political category

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent invocation of the Manusmriti in a recent program in Pune to characterize the Indian social order and to point...

The reality of castes in India

Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism. In its present form, casteism is a construct...

Neeraj Ghaywan’s manipulation

How Ambedkarite director demeans upper castes