emSculptures from the collection of renowned artist A K Sivadas. /em

emThe emergence of a Dalit identity in Punjab is a recent development, spurred in part by the failure of Sikhism to abandon caste discrimination. /em    

emThe mid-20th century saw intense caste discussions in US academia./em    

emThe vehement arguments of some high-profile Hindu groups notwithstanding, the UK’s new Equality Bill will include some reference to caste./em    

emTraditionally, the caste system has functioned differently in the Nepali Tarai. /em  

emUnderlying caste bias remains strong within the Indian judiciary./em  

...when we no longer have to look back. /em    

emA further fragmentation of caste identities would rule out the possibility of solidarity across oppressed castes./em  

emDespite their wide acceptance within the Dalit movement (and many others), NGOs today are functioning as a diversionary palliative. /em    

emThree lessons from the creation of the OBC category./em  

emIn Indian Punjab, caste discrimination is subtle while caste assertion is loud./em  

emHinduism’s rigidity is forcing it to cede ground to Islam, Christianity and Buddhism./em

emThe path of Buddhism can end the curse of caste./em

emQuestioning our personal contradictions is essential to any discussion on caste.  /em

emWaiting for an India when caste names will have lost their meaning. /em

emAs India urbanises, caste is losing, and will continue to lose, its strength./em  

emThe 12th-century poet offers potential ‘meeting points’ for caste reconciliation./em  

 

 

 

Myths and misperceptions persist in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, as the third round of violence gathers momentum since the signing of the 1997 CHT accord.

em With most of the ULFA leadership either in prison or on the run, the militant outfit is in bad shape – an opportunity for New Delhi and for peace. /em  

emThe idea of Southasia after the war. /em   em /em  

emThe life and times of Jogendranath Mandal. /em  

emA dreamer in the mould of the first wave of post-Independence Southasian leaders, Girija Prasad Koirala was also a man who believed in getting things done. /em  

emLocating the ‘untouchable’ in Shyam Benegal’s Ankur. /em  

Ravikumar´s emVenomous Touch /emis an important work that would have benefited from combining its dogged and painstaking reports of injustices with the analytic and theoretically frameworks he sets forth; Kandyil´s emWriting Indian History /emis unsatisfying and baffling work with poorly chosen sources.

The transformation of the Dalit identity to a vulnerable subject – as opposed to a truly emanicipated citizen – in the modern liberal state is critically and historically examined in Anupama Rao´s The Caste Question.

emWho Killed Karkare?/em is a wake-up call to the government and public to take cognisance of the shift in the strategy of Hindutva terror, and the dire threat this poses to Indian democracy.

emAmidst of backdrop of a theater culture that takes up the causes of the middle class, playwright Premanand Gajvi gives voice to the concerns of those who are rarely heard. /em  

Even as talks between New Delhi and the NSCN-IM drag on, the death of longtime Naga leader Khodao Yanthan goes unnoticed.