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Director Ananth Mahadevan spoke about objections raised against the portrayal of caste-discrimination in his film, 'Phule'.
Amid growing discussions over the socio-economic survey in Karnataka, Janata Dal (Secular) Karnataka Youth President Nikhil ...
India’s film certification body accused of censoring anti-caste film ‘Phule’ under pressure from so-called upper caste groups ...
Political thinker Prof. Yogendra Yadav who participated in seminar said that the state government released caste survey data was akin to an X-ray, but what we truly need is an MRI scan ...
The findings of Karnataka’s long-delayed caste census, officially known as the Socio-Economic and Education Survey 2015, have ...
Karnataka PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi on Friday said a decision on the Social and Educational Survey report, popularly ...
The violence against the ‘surplus bodies’ of widows and widowers to ensure caste purity applies to the experience of Dalit ...
as it meant identifying themselves as Dalits in their social and professional spheres. “In many families, children are asked to change their caste names so that they are not outed for their ...
Anant Mahadevan’s Hindi biopic Phule is facing heat from Brahmin groups and CBFC. But for Dalits, it’s still a moment of ...
Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.
Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist legend of Matanga and Persian and Arabic perspectives on ...
Dr BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and independent India’s first Law Minister, remains a towering figure in the struggle for social ...