The reason I start with Newport’s AI writing in a discussion about his latest (excellent) book, Slow Productivity, is to predict (or lobby for) his next book. It is impossible to think about the ...

Gandhiji: A Shudra has as much right to knowledge as a Brahmin. But if he tries to earn his "livelihood" through "teaching," ...

DALLAS, TX – Rep. Brandon Gill, a Republican congressman from Texas’s 26th District and a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, is facing backlash over an inflammatory tweet criticizing an Indian ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

With respect to minorities, we risk the perpetuation of apartheid-like conditions under the cover of a legal system that, on ...

In December 2020, as the world grappled with unequal access to Covid-19 vaccines, another form of inequality was exposed inside India’s prisons. A journalist, Sukanya Shantha, reported how caste, ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power. Teltumbde ...

Caste shapes every aspect of Indian culture and culture. As Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan writes in The Trauma of Caste, this “system of exclusion…ranks people at birth affects over ...

Autocracy rarely storms in with tanks– it usually begins with a government list that expands over time. Under Donald Trump, the government’s dragnet is turning toward naturalized Americans, making ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...