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Curing prisons of caste prejudice
The top court found that colonial era jail manuals that segregated professions based on caste were violations of the constitutional protections
Updated on Oct 06, 2024 11:58 PM IST
HT Editorial
Historian Shailaja Paik, who broke caste ceiling, awarded ‘genius grant’
Shailaja Paik, a Dalit historian from Pune's slum, wins the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking work on caste, gender, and sexuality
Updated on Oct 03, 2024 09:35 AM IST
Vicky Pathare, Pune/new Delhi
Can creamy layer in the Dalit quota be justified?
Any change in policy which involves a question of life and death for Scheduled Castes should be determined by hard facts and not by unfounded assumptions.
Published on Sep 18, 2024 09:17 PM IST
Sukhadeo Thorat
How sub-quotas queer affirmative-action pitch
The Supreme Court’s decision green-lighting SC/ST sub-quotas and a secondary call to enforce creamy layer exclusions hold the potential to upend a settled but imperfect compact
Published on Aug 13, 2024 09:21 PM IST
Dhrubo Jyoti
Justice Chandru Report and the fight against caste-based discrimination
Jurist K Chandru, the one-person commission appointed to look into the Nanguneri incident of caste violence, inspired the 2021 Tamil movie, Jai Bhim.
