In a significant move to enhance transparency and streamline the civil services selection process, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced an important update for the Civil Services ...

1813. Kerala’s first mass movement against caste discrimination in the erstwhile Travancore kingdom is led by the Nadars, a Hindu backward caste. The demand is for Nadar women to have the right to ...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has now taken up a complaint of caste discrimination at the hands of the campus placement offices in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ...

Adding an ironic layer to the hostility, MAGA supporters have hit back at Indians calling out racism by pointing to casteism and the rigid enforcement of caste endogamy within Indian communities.

Urbanisation is often cited as an antidote to the influence of caste in society. So, does politics rise above caste in urban pockets? Delhi is, perhaps, the only Union Territory (UT) with a large ...

Yet, its history is as complex as its sound — an instrument, once praised, became a tool of oppression tied to the caste system, and positioned to mournful dirges at funerals. Today, the parai is ...