Climate change and biodiversity are rightly on the top of the agenda in terms of key concerns felt and experienced by young ...

This could lead to further underinvestment in the education of lower-caste groups, if it leads to the expectation of lower returns. Political inequalities and the formation of institutions. This ...

The danger of reproducing old inequalities around caste, tribe and gender “The Naxalite aims are noble, but they are living under intense state repression, and within those conditions it is easy to ...

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development ...

According to the new addition in the manual, the prison authorities will have to strictly ensure that there is no ...

The tragic story of two teenagers from Rukum West, who planned to tie the knot, could not withstand social pressures before they killed themselves as they belonged to two separate castes, is indeed a ...

and what Mahad teaches about inequality, purity and pollution and exclusionary tendencies. So just like interview calls and job appointments can be influenced by caste preferences (as proven ...

For decades, caste has been the silent architect of inequality—visible in the cracks of our social structure but invisible in official data. It is time to confront this reality with courage and ...

This avoidance masks the deep inequalities and hierarchies within the so-called Hindu community. The data will also show how many people have moved beyond their traditional caste occupations.

(MENAFN- IANS) Bengaluru, Jan 3 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday observed that inequality will prevail as long as caste and class systems exist. Addressing Karnataka ...

Ritu is an ESRC-funded scholar at LSE working on caste inequalities. Her current project explores the institutionalisation of caste in elite higher education spaces and the policies and practices that ...