Operation Sindoor has laid bare the current shift in public opinion on what is the right response to conflict — blood lust ...

The best way to sensitise children to environmental issues is through storytelling says SUBHADRA SEN GUPTA author of The Energy and Resources Institute s Caring for Nature book series for children MON ...

By creating competition for recognition, resources, and representation ... critique. A caste census is not a neutral act of documentation; it is a political intervention that risks undoing decades of ...

Risley had a dramatic influence on the rise of caste ... caste system from all over the subcontinent. In the late 19th century, upper-caste Indian elites sought political reforms and ...

The selection of ministers was on the basis of under-representation of a specific ... the Sangh knows exactly how the caste system operates and why it is politically necessary to leverage the ...

India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social structure ... A caste census could clarify these figures, ensuring fair representation.

The heated debates surrounding India’s caste census often get trapped in binary narratives: necessary accountability, participation and representation versus divisive ... allowing their classification ...

Verse 4.13 of the Bhagavad Gita expostulates Krishna’s stance on caste: that one’s own guna (qualities) and karma (actions) should determine one’s occupation—not heredity. While the Manusmriti ...

The SC community in Karnataka is broadly classified under four categories: SC (left) (the most backward groups such as the Madigas who were considered untouchables in the caste system): SC ... in ...

He clearly identified the oppressed and the oppressors by tracing the historical genesis of the caste system ... and equitable representation, true democracy could never be achieved.

and while caste quotas for SCs are met, there are major gaps in ST and OBC representation. Women remain underrepresented, and there are notable shortages in forensic staffing. The prison system is ...