Higher reservation for OBCs, SCs and STs need not hinder progress and opportunities for others. India can still grow large and fast to accommodate all...

Under the Right to Apprenticeship (RTAP) proposal, any youth below the age of 25 with a diploma or above can legally ask for an apprenticeship and the government will be obligated under law to provide...

A national debate has been triggered championing the case for a caste census, with Rahul Gandhi calling it a much-needed ‘X-ray’ of Indian society...

Readers of this newspaper may find it difficult to discuss caste...

Data reveals that more than three-quarters of all senior professional positions in India are taken up by people from the ‘forward castes’ who constitute only one-fifth of the population...

The government’s proposal to ask WhatsApp to disclose the originator is sound but its demand for exclusivity and control over this process is unacceptable and must be resisted...

Feudal to Federal...

The tight ‘suits’ that adorn Ashoka’s governing body will do well to shed them for looser kurtas. The management’s submissiveness became the discussion point rather than the merits of the paper...

Of the 44 chief and senior editors of the top 18 national English television, print and digital media publications, nearly all are upper caste...