Director Ananth Mahadevan, whose latest film 'Phule' has upset a section of the audience, spoke about the controversy. In an ...

Why has a film about India's two revolutionary thinkers upset the self-proclaimed caretakers of the Brahmin community? Did ...

Even in countries that have outlawed discrimination, issues of caste discrimination are being raised. Historical Context of Caste System The modern ... requires writers to use primary sources ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Pratik Gandhi's Phule was supposed to release on April 11, however, a section of Brahmin community raised objection over the ...

The announcement marks a high-profile intensification of the government’s efforts to claim Ambedkar. On March 30th Mr Modi ...

A few months before that, I had asked PM Narendra Modi in the Parliament that we should get a caste census done in the country... I wanted to know who had what share in this country and whether ...

However, fairness criteria vary from country to country. In India, for example, the caste system influences the distribution of social benefits. In China, access to social services is determined ...

Ambedkar questions the graded inequality of the caste system that ranks individuals based on their birth. This inequality and hierarchy extends to the seemingly homogenous transgender community as ...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah omitted the Socio-Economic Survey from the 2025-26 budget, sparking speculation that the caste census could be shelved. The report, facing opposition from dominant caste ...

He also asserted that the system of merit was “unfair and upper caste narrative,” prompting a severe backlash from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Rahul Gandhi made the remarks in a post ...