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It is the schools that have failed the students and not the other way round. Poorly run schools lead to fewer students. The onus to improve the quality of the schools is on the government, not on the students, writes Deepak Kumar Nanda

Historian P. Sanal Mohan says caste continues to be a substantial experience in Kerala. There are numerous occasions in everyday life, like when choosing whom to marry, when one realizes that caste is a reality

Historian P. Sanal Mohan says the Gandhian nationalist discourse foregrounded the issue of untouchability. He says he hasn’t come across anyone who claimed to be a nationalist leader of the 20th century talking about slavery in their writings on caste in Kerala

By allying with Chandrashekhar Azad’s party, the Congress may be able to recover some lost ground in Uttar Pradesh. But would Azad agree to an alliance with the Congress? A credible Bahujan agenda may persuade him, writes Dharavath Surender Naik

Director Shailesh Narwade’s unique film ‘Jayanti’ is inching towards completion. The investors are all Dalitbahujans, so are most of the actors and the team behind the scenes. But more funds are needed, for which he has turned to crowdfunding

Going against its core values, the Adivasi community is behaving cruelly with its women who marry non-Adivasis. Who or what is behind this trend and why is this happening? Nitisha Xalxo analyses

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Even the Supreme Court’s 2016 order that the Odisha government reinvestigate the cases related to the 2008 pogrom and pay damages has had little effect on the ground, writes Goldy M. George

Deferring to the mounting national and international pressure by indigenous leaders and Indian anthropologists, IUAES has withdrawn the co-hosting rights of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences to the World Anthropology Congress 2023. However, the larger issue of KISS as a factory school funded by mining corporates remains, writes Goldy M. George

If institutions like IISER have only a handful of Dalitbahujans, it is because they are not following the reservation norms. Information obtained through an RTI application underlines this point, says Nawal Kishore Kumar