Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Caste survives by regulating organic movement; it thrives by dramatising the ordinary; and it spreads by normalising the ...

The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather than treating racism as a matter of prejudice or individual belief, ...

One major issue is the division between public and private higher education. The two sectors have moved apart at a remarkable pace over the last few decades ...

Filmmaker Somnath Waghmare discusses his documentary ‘Gail and Bharat’, which explores the life of Gail Omvedt—an American-born scholar who dedicated her life to India's anti-caste movement. The film ...

Following my recent blog on Dalit cuisine—where I argued, citing several studies, that it is deeply shaped by the Given the ...

For thousands of years the caste system has divided people into hereditary groups. At the top were Brahmins, or priests; below th ...

Soundala’s move has been recognized as a people’s initiative for social change. Although the caste system is still a strong social phenomenon in many corners of Indian society, Soundala’s statement is ...

BENGALURU: Amidst the debate among academicians and students about whether student elections should be held in universities ...

KAKINAEA: Based on their father’s caste, Community certificates will be given to their children, clarified S Mallibabu, Kakinada RDO. He spoke to the media after a mother and son staged a protest in ...

Kummera village in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district is known for its Mallanna jatara, an annual temple festival celebrated ...

The Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni was at the center of a political and media storm, which did not appear out of nowhere: it is the result of a mixture of sloppiness, feeling of impunity and a chain ...