The Natha Pratha is a tribal custom that allows a married woman to legitimise her relationship with a man who's not her ...

More men than women have written to me about witnessing their sisters, mothers, friends and co-workers caught in the ...

Maharashtra Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Abu Asim Azmi on Friday accused the media of maligning him by misrepresenting his statement on Aurangzeb, requesting Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to revoke ...

The incidents have led to Dalit and tribal groups slamming the BJP government in Rajasthan for singling out government ...

"Looking at the situation of atrocities against Dalits over the past one year and a half, caste-based discrimination ... He demanded agriculture minister Kirori Lal Meena intervene and act ...

Adding, “The party has to recalibrate its entire caste strategy after two back-to-back defeats in ... Similarly, it took almost a year to send disciplinary notices to Kirodi Lal Meena in Rajasthan, ...

Of the rest, Vijay Kumar Mandal is from the extremely backward class (EBC) community, Raj Kumar Singh is a Rajput and Jibesh Kumar is a Bhumihar, both upper caste communities. “Since political ...

“A dispute over land led to the attack,” said Sub-Inspector Dayachand Meena. “We have filed an FIR and taken some people into custody.” Officials said the investigation is ongoing. (Inputs by Himanshu ...

March 2025 ushers in an exciting mix of festivals and religious observances. The month corresponds to the months of Kumbha and Meena in the traditional Hindu solar calendar. In the Malayalam calendar, ...

The Court was hearing the case of a 30-year-old woman who sought a caste certificate based on her mother’s claim of belonging to the Shimpi community, categorized as OBC.

Taken in sum, an implicit hierarchy starts to take shape. As the writer and activist Meena Kandasamy described it in a blog post in 2014: The caste-Hindu male has a sense of entitlement over the ...