For centuries, what we now call Hinduism was never a single religion. It was a civilisation organised through caste. Each ...

Scholar-activist Debi Chatterjee traces her shift from apartheid studies to anti-caste politics, Dalit feminism, and Bengali ...

Dravidian-Marxist discourse has hidden the state’s Hindu social model behind slogans of rationalism while appropriating its ...

They have also been requested to mention Pali as their mother tongue. Census exercise formally began 1 May in Maharashtra, with launch of self-enumeration phase.

India, May 16 -- The word "Sanatan" means eternal. It is now among the most fiercely contested words in Indian public life, ...

With the passing of Andre Beteille, a scholar who shaped generations of students and devoted more than five decades to research in Indian sociology, we witness the close of a remarkable legacy that ...

Distinctive watercolour and oil paintings celebrate Bengaluru of yore at Varna Mythri — a retrospective show honouring the works of late artist Rumale Chennabasaviah in Hyderabad. The show at Salar ...

Therefore, democracy has become a mockery in India with its history of autocratic rulers and compliant subjects. Returning to his concept of ‘matha’ (sectarian thinking), he says that unless we free ...