Caste In India

Payal Tadvi's suicide: 'Evidence of ligature mark over neck', says autopsy report; victim's chats show she was facing torture

The investigation into the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi has been transferred to the Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police on Thursday.

Payal Tadvi's suicide: Marred by casteism, dominated by donations, medical education in India needs mirror to avoid dehumanisation

Three senior doctors allegedly bullied and tortured Dr Payal Tadvi because of her caste - she was born into an Adivasi family - all the way to suicide at Mumbai's BYL Nair Hospital.

Resident doctor's suicide in Mumbai a grim reminder of how caste bias plagues India's educational institutes even today

While Dr Pragya Tadvi's suicide in Mumbai following caste harassment is a grim reminder of how classrooms are not free from the social evil, it is also an indicator of the sorry state of the education system in India.

'Smash Brahminical Patriarchy' is decidedly targeting Brahmins, calling a select few women to meet Dorsey is certainly 'Brahmanical'

The external display of support for inclusion and defence of Jack Dorsey 'smashing Brahminical Patriarchy', tried to conceal a modern day story of privileged voices having access to most relevant spaces and discourses.

What Dr BR Ambedkar said about Brahmanical Patriarchy in India and why Brahmins (and men) should read it

The lawyer Gautam Bhatia has, in a tweet referring to a paper Ambedkar presented at an anthropology seminar at Columbia University in 1916, suggested a line of inquiry

Wild Hair and Mad Dalit Women

I had just been looking in all the wrong place for answers but as it turns out — Dalit women have always had answers to these questions. Women with loud and vulgar laughter who, like their hair, are mad and untameable — always do.

'BR Ambedkar was a theoretician': Kanshi Ram's hubris and why BSP remained just a party of North India

This comparison, which left nobody in doubt about who he thought was the bigger leader of the Dalits, evoked apathy in North India but met with severe hostility from Andhra Pradesh.

Ashes to ashes: Matang women sift through funeral pyres to earn their livelihood; it's killing them

The women of the Matang community — a sub-section of Dalits — earn their livelihoods by sifting through the ashes of the dead. If the smoke inhalation doesn't kill them, hunger will.

No stay on Centre's decision to include Jats in OBC: SC

The bench said it cannot come in the way of the government taking a decision a day before the MCC came into force.

Inclusion of Jats in OBC list comes under SC scanner

The apex court asked the Centre to bring all relevant records to show there was proper consideration of NCBC report to reject its recommendation against inclusion of Jats as OBC.