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Drawing Room: Vinu VV’s wooden sculptures showcase the trauma of casteism

Vinu VV’s Ochhakal, or Reverberations, depicts the cruel treatments meted out to Dalits.

Updated 3 days ago

‘Not a person who is afraid’: TN LoP Stalin clarifies Sanatan Dharma remark

Tamil Nadu LoP Udhayanidhi Stalin

Updated 60 days ago

Basavanna's ideals relevant till caste system ends, says CM Siddaramaiah

Basavanna's ideals relevant till caste system ends, says CM Siddaramaiah

Published 84 days ago

The negative echoes of a divided education system

Since no course evaluation or any other procedure ensuring transparency exists, pedagogic experience remains confined to a student’s personal memory. (Shutterstock)

Published 124 days ago

Meet a nun, a farmer, other outliers showing art at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Sister Roswin, 35, born Malu Joy, is showing 30 drawings, eight small terracotta busts, and two large sculptural installations, most of which feature older nuns. (Photos via the artists: Kochi Biennale Foundation; Dhamini Ratnam / HT)

Updated 128 days ago

DU bans protests on campus for a month amid row over UGC's anti-casteism rules

A group of students from Delhi University protesting against the UGC's rules against discrimination, terming them biased, on the DU North Campus in New Delhi.

Updated 146 days ago

Hemang Ashwinkumar: “I have seen words transform lives”

Translator Hemang Ashwinkumar (Courtesy the subject)

Published 171 days ago

Indian jails: Prisoners of the caste system

The Court’s judgment affirms that prisons exist to reform, not humiliate. Yet caste-based hierarchies have survived for generations, a silent nod of institutional complacency, cloaked in bureaucratic plausible deniability. (HT Archive)

Published 194 days ago

Inglorious ways of showcasing power

When a person’s entire worth is dependent on the position he occupies on a hierarchical scale, the assertion of status (and its recognition by others) becomes of crucial importance (Hindustan Times)

Published 226 days ago

Bihar assembly polls: The state where caste bests religion

An artist paints a voter awareness mural in Patna, Bihar.

Updated 258 days ago

‘Indeed from upper caste’: Cong's Udit Raj on US argument on Indian oil refiners

Udit Raj stressed on the caste of Indian oil refiners, not naming names.

Updated 315 days ago

Movies on caste discrimination beyond Dhadak 2: Sairat, Super 30, Sonchiriya

Dhadak 2 and Sairat

Updated 346 days ago

Day after PM lauds caste census decision, Congress hits back with two videos

Jairam Ramesh hits back with two videos, a day after PM Modi lauded the caste census decision,

Published 414 days ago

HistoriCity: How caste evolved in ancient India

Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.

Updated 455 days ago

‘…we DON’T have a caste system': US House Rep hits back against Indian diaspora

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has been making the headlines for a series of controversial remarks and choices lately.

Published 497 days ago

India’s founding document sparked a social revolution

BR Ambedkar and Rajendra Prasad, two of the stalwarts of the Constituent Assembly. (HT PHOTO)

Updated 594 days ago

Anand Teltumbde – “Ambedkar challenged Gandhi’s Mahatmahood”

Author Anand Teltumbde (Courtesy the subject)

Published 626 days ago

Telangana becomes third state to start caste survey

The caste survey was among the guarantees promised by the ruling Congress in the run-up to the assembly elections last year. (PTI)

Updated 639 days ago

Karnataka recommended inclusion of Ambiga community in ST category: Siddaramaiah

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. (File Photo)

Published 910 days ago

Caste survey and quota hike: Bihar starts political churn ahead of 2024 polls

JD(U) workers and supporters celebrate the results of the Bihar caste survey, in Patna on October 4. (PTI)

Published 978 days ago

Book Box | Manohar Malgonkar's literary journey into princely India

The Princes

Published 989 days ago

Karnataka CM slams PM Modi's call against caste politics, supports reservations

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. (ANI)

Published 992 days ago

Roundabout: Confronting a state of mind that goes by the name of caste

Author Ujjal Dosanjh’s latest work “The Past is Never Dead is to be released in Chandigarh on May 14. (HT Photo)

Updated 1163 days ago

India's 1st girls school to teaching his wife, Jyotiba Phule's journey

Jyotiba Phule was born on April 11, 1827.

Published 1190 days ago

After 20 years, biopic on social reformer Phule still to take off

MAHARASHTRA CHIEF MINISTER VILASRAO DESHMUKH GARLANDING THE PORTRAIT OF MAHATMA JYOTIBA PHULE ON LATTER'S DEATH ANNIVERSARY AT A FUNCTION HELD IN MANATRALAYA,IN MUMBAI ON WEDNESDAY.ALSO SEEN WITH PICTURE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HOME KRIPA SHANKAR SINGH .HT PHOTO. HTPHOTO

Updated 1190 days ago

The audacity of democratic hope

A view of the Constituent Assembly on December 10, 1946.

Updated 1326 days ago

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