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Part II: Who wrote the caste question

Kaushlesh Rai - October 19, 2026

An Indian sociologist’s untested idea went to Harvard as a hypothesis and came back as a fact

Part I: The caste question after a death

Kaushlesh Rai - October 17, 2026

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

Jamui was not ‘moral policing’

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - September 22, 2026

What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home safely? Study. Come back before dark. Stay on the main road....

The homework the warriors skipped

Kaushlesh Rai - September 20, 2026

India's self-appointed general-category activists intend to demolish a structure built over a century and a half. They have not yet worked out how it was put up.

Who speaks for the girl who takes off her hijab?

Sonal Upadhyay - September 19, 2026

In the debate about what Indian women should wear, the word "choice" has become a kind of closing argument. However, the concept of choice...

Does the Indian state stand with the weak through its caste policies?

Sufiya Pathan - September 11, 2026

What we need to learn from the story of Barbarik

Migration and the limits of mercy

Adhirathi - July 20, 2026

Your compassion has a cost. Who is paying it?

The unanswered question in the NCERT ‘Dancing Girl’ controversy

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - June 18, 2026

If you happen to visit the National Museum in Delhi someday. Try to locate one glass case in the Harappan gallery. If you’ll get...

Hold my beer, docs. Where’s the accountability?

S Shiva - June 15, 2026

When Pranit More asked Sejal Pawar, a final-year MBBS student at Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, whether she and her batchmates joked...

This is why the left hates us

S Shiva - June 3, 2026

I used to think the left hates India and so the Hindus. However, it's the opposite. Basically, it hates the Hindus and so does...

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