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

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

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 ...

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

The recent killing of C. Kavin Selvaganesh, a Scheduled Caste youth, just because he was in love with a girl of an intermediate caste, has again spotlighted rampant caste pride in southern Tamil Nadu.

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

Kamal Haasan's comments come amid continued opposition to the NEET system for medical admissions in Tamil Nadu.

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 ...

A young IT professional was murdered in a suspected caste -motivated “ honour killing ” in India on Sunday evening. Kavin ...

The idea of social justice has shaped politics in Tamil Nadu for over a century. Political parties that subscribe to E V “Periyar” Ramasamy’s anti-caste ideology have had an uninterrupted run in ...