The two institutes to hold joint placement events ...

Two major concerns the Congress is grappling with before the crucial brainstorming session (Chintan Shivir) begins on Friday in Udaipur are: party leadership and how to counter the BJP’s majorit...

Since its inception, the idea of modern India has been an extension of caste society. Historically, subordinate castes faced multiple forms of loss and disenfranchisement. Their performance traditions...

Book: Last Among Equals: Power, Caste And Politics In Bihar’s Villages Author: M.R. Sharan Publisher: Context Price: Rs.599 The one thing that makes Last Among Equals stand out in a sea of ...

The most recent round of polls has established again that elections are not won by paying heed to issues that civil society and sections of the media like to rant about. Hate speech is not a strict no...

When Antonio Gramsci wrote that in many ways, “every speaking being has a personal language of his own”, he might have well been referring to India, a land with 19,500 mother tongues. So i...

Writing in the 1980s about the ethnic conflict in his home country, the Sri Lankan anthropologist, S.J. Tambiah, described the Sinhalese as a “majority with a minority complex”. The Sinhal...

Book: This Land is Mine, I Am Not of This Land: CAA-NRC and the Manufacture of Statelessness Editor: Harsh Mander and Navsharan Singh Publisher: Speaking Tiger Price: Rs 499 This book is a serious...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address BJP workers, ministers, MPs and MLAs on Wednesday on the occasion of the party's foundation day, its general secretary Arun Singh said on Tuesday. Addres...

The hijab controversy is welcome. What we were witnessing is the coming to the fore of underlying, potentially conflicting, differences. Solidarity is constrained by its potential to become ...