A novel depicting a dystopian society in which humans have conquered death has sparked a debate about censorship in Windsor ...

BJP’s three-decade grip on power, revealing Gujarat not as a “model of development” but as a laboratory for elite ...

For nearly two centuries, Adivasis brought to Assam’s tea plantations have lived with a borrowed label, denied Scheduled ...

In this essay, Antony Arul Valan examines how R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi embeds caste hierarchies in everyday language rather ...

Neither the Congress nor the communists have any right to claim Ambedkar’s legacy, and caste is a reality that shapes ...

We show that in government, public sector as well as in the bureaucracy - compared to what things were in the 50s and 60s - there is enormous change in representation,' says Devesh Kapur ...

A short biography of the Rice Man of India, Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade, and a book about a child’s discovery of his passion for medu vadas, that is also a tribute to the openness that migrants bring ...

The tendency in this moment, as in many others, is to speak of India as a unitary society. Of course it is not, and the largest share of those writing, posting, and reading about Black Lives Matter ...

New Delhi: India Today has introduced a new discussion format, The 3C Project, positioned as a space for empathy-led, issue-centred conversations at a time when political and social divides continue ...

Why did the British start counting castes? The 1857 revolt gave a big jolt to the British. They realised they did not understand India enough. When the Crown took over in 1858, Queen Victoria declared ...

Berhampur: A police case has been registered against nine people in Munisipentha village of Odisha’s Ganjam district after allegations of social boycott of the family of Aska Additional Tehsildar ...

The Department of South Asia Studies hosted authors and editors Ramnarayan Rawat and Kusuma Satyanarayana to discuss their latest work, "Dalit Journeys for Dignity: Religion, Freedom, and Caste." At ...