The Karnataka government’s plan to financially support Brahmin brides from poor families has kicked up a row because of the condition that the beneficiaries must marry within the community. The...

Mayawati on Sunday tried to tap the encounter killings of Vikas Dubey and his gang members to reach out to Brahmins in Uttar Pradesh. “The BSP believes that an entire community shouldn’t ...

Academics and activists on Tuesday termed as “unconstitutional” a statement by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that Brahmins are supreme socially because of their sacrifice and penance.They expressed a...

A forest tribe that claims to have once managed the Sabarimala temple is gearing up for a legal battle to reclaim their right to run the Kerala shrine and revive rituals that Brahminical rites had rep...

There is one race that Indians are determined to win. The race to run backward. New India is newest in its love for regressive beliefs and repressive traditions, anti-scientific mindsets and primitive...

A restaurant here has kicked up a row by naming a chicken delicacy after Iyers, a vegetarian Tamil Brahmin caste.Another eatery in Tamil Nadu has won widespread support — but angered pro-Hindu outfi...

A Kerala High Court judge has claimed that Brahmins “should always be at the helm of affairs” because of their “certain distinct” qualities but insisted he was not expressing any opinion.Justi...

The Union cabinet on Monday gave the go-ahead for a legislation to give 10 per cent quota in state jobs and educational institutions for 'economically weaker sections'.The proposed criteria for determ...

Isaac Newton’s third law of motion — every action has an equal and opposite reaction — is applicable in the case of the Narendra Modi government’s recent decision to give 10 per cent reservati...