The non-Brahmin movement of Periyar mobilised backward classes politically, but appears to have done little to undermine ...

Despite Supreme Court orders, honour killings persist in India. Tamil Nadu tops inter-caste murder statistics. Why do ...

Caste violence persists in Tamil Nadu despite a century of anti-caste ideology, revealing systemic failures and ideological ...

Legally empowered, yet socially disempowered — this phrase captures the gap between constitutional promise and lived reality ...

Tamil Nadu is often hailed as a bastion of anti-Hindutva politics in India. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has projected ...

In a strong political push against caste-based violence, three key allies of Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK - the CPI(M), CPI, and ...

A unique hostel project in Tamil Nadu has brought together students from diverse caste and class backgrounds to live under one roof, share meals and sleeping spaces to promote a new model of social ...

I am unable to call the murders done in the name of caste as either ‘honour or dishonour killings’. They are brutal pre-meditated murders. Such acts attract Sec ...

Stalin, who unveiled the policy at the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai, reiterated Tamil Nadu’s commitment to its ...

“I loved people without realising they had long been estranged from nature. Our emotions are preconditioned; our love is ...

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...