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Caste and Meritocracy Keep India’s Top Institutions Running. At What Cost?

Sayantan Datta 22/05/2021

While the Seema Singh episode received a lot of...

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Rajasaurus narmadensis and Other Mementoes of Ancient Indian Culture

Shuddhabrata Sengupta 25/09/2020

There was nothing worth calling an 'Indian culture' 12,000...

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E.K. Janaki Ammal and the Caste Conundrum

Geeta Doctor 15/08/2020

The recent interest in Janaki Ammal having been chosen...

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What Mahalanobis Got Right About National Identity – and the BJP Gets Wrong

Abhinav Srinivasan 26/01/2020

Like Mahalanobis, the current government mistakenly believes that a...

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When Mental Health Collides With Caste Identity

Maroosha Muzaffar 07/12/2019

While the Indian government doesn’t release caste-based data on...

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How Far Have We Deviated From the Ideology of Our Constitution?

S.V. Narayanan 26/11/2019

The founding fathers of our constitution envisaged an egalitarian...

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Inclusion Is Key to Any Sanitation Goal India Sets

Anju Dwivedi, Bharti and Tripti Singh 19/11/2019

On World Toilet Day, it is crucial to first...