The interim order staying the UGC’s 2026 anti-discrimination guidelines has revived long-standing historical debates on merit ...

The reservation system in India was originally conceived as a temporary measure to uplift historically disadvantaged communities. It was meant to provide equal opportunities in education, employment, ...

IIT Delhi conference on caste and racism, its academic significance, and the controversy fueled by social media trolls, ...

The new UGC guidelines are here, and the debates have started on the very fundamental issue of whether they will reduce caste ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

The  ruling in Keshaw Mahto vs State of Bihar raises a difficult but necessary question: can caste humiliation be legally ...

India’s constitutional vision of reservations was never meant to become a permanent battlefield between communities. It was designed as a bridge - a temporary corrective mechanism to ensure ...

It also took note of a government order issued pursuant to earlier court directions, recognising that caste-based rallies ...

The petition argues that by confining the scope of caste-based discrimination strictly to SC, ST, and OBC groups, the ...

As India debates caste discrimination once again aftert the new UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulation 2026, in courts, campuses, and politics, a large-scale Pew ...

The petitioners submitted before the Supreme Court that the UGC regulations “institutionalise a narrow and exclusionary ...