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 ...

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 ...

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

The policy also mandated a climate curriculum focused on Tamil Nadu’s specific environmental challenges for school students.

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

At a film conclave in Kerala this week, Adoor Gopalakrishnan — one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated directors — stood before an audience and delivered a speec ...

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 ...

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.