Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

How an investigative report forced the Supreme Court to confront entrenched caste discrimination in India’s prisons—and why change remains elusive ...

The reason I start with Newport’s AI writing in a discussion about his latest (excellent) book, Slow Productivity, is to predict (or lobby for) his next book. It is impossible to think about the ...

The regime is testing a two-tier internet where access becomes a vetted privilege. Its economic cost could be staggering.

This prison memoir, published after Ghandhy was released on bail after ten years in prison, looks back at his and his partner ...

In December 2020, as the world grappled with unequal access to Covid-19 vaccines, another form of inequality was exposed inside India’s prisons. A journalist, Sukanya Shantha, reported how caste, ...

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...

In the 21st century’s urban modernity, where conversations often revolve around equality, mental health, personal freedom, and a society without discrimination, how much of the lives of the ...

On The Dawn of Life, his translation of MK Gandhi’s grand-nephew Prabhudas Gandhi’s memoir, Jivannu Parodh, from the original ...

The pedagogical torture relies on random terror to break the integrity of an entire population and makes it plastic material for the teachings invented by technocrats. The belief that man can do what ...