RTAP: The big bold idea to tackle youth unemployment

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 ...

If caste census is the ‘X-ray’, mining can be the ‘treatment’

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. ...

Turning a blind eye to caste will only make things worse for India Inc

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

Caste is a birth lottery disease. Social lottery may be a remedy

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. ...

WhatsApp should disclose origin of viral forwards. But don’t share it just with govt

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. ...