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Inter-caste marriages will possibly reduce caste and community tensions: SC

The Supreme Court has said while noting that the educated younger boys and girls are nowadays choosing their life partners which is a departure from earlier societal norms.

For millions of migrant workers, Covid-19 brought caste discrimination back

While the pandemic has destroyed livelihoods worldwide, leaving people without jobs, some of biggest hits are likely to be taken by families in countries like India that have few social safety nets

Drumming on discrimination

Caste is, in fact, a structural problem

Gunjan Veda's book seeks to break caste through sunlit stories from India

Author Gunjan Veda confronts her own prejudices in the hesitant but brave epilogue of her book The Museum of Broken Tea Cups: Postcards from India's Margins

Culture of professional colleges failed Dr Payal Tadvi - just as it did me

Bright, well-meaning students convinced me that I didn't deserve to be in my university. I so deeply internalised their narrative that I couldn't fight it within my own self, let alone with them

Income inequality in India: Top 10% upper caste households own 60% wealth

Among OBCs and STs too, top 10% had cornered most wealth. Top 10% of both groups held around 52% of wealth in 2012 and top 10% of SCs' share increased three percentage points to 46.7% till 2012

Don't mention caste of accused in arrest memos: Rajasthan HC directs police

The order came on a petition filed by Bishan Shing, who was ordered to be released on bail but due to a mistake in bail bond his caste was written as Mev instead of Jatav

India's rural roads contracts: How lawmakers bent rules to favour own caste

Roads built by politically connected contractors 10% more expensive to construct, or, worse, not constructed at all

Caste system extends to uneven access to cooking fuel and electricity

Few govt policies have dealt with access to clean energy sources for socially marginalised groups