There once was a time when the people pooled in money—10 rupees and 20 rupees—to put up candidates they wanted to see represent them. Today, voters expect parties and candidates …
Hegde, Gowda, Jois, Shetty, Rai, Iyer, Iyengar, Gounder, Namboodiri, Menon, Nair, Nambiar, Reddy, Naidu, Rao, Patnaik, Hota, Panda, Naik, Shinde, Jadhav, Patel, Shah, Desai… Chatterjee, Mukerjee, Bannerjee, Sen, Das, Roy, …
P. SAINATH in The Hindu: “A signal achievement of the Indian elite in recent years has been to take caste, give it a fresh coat of paint, and repackage it …
A Wall Street Journal article on the diminishing fortunes of Brahmins, quotes a study by the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, as saying that close to half of Brahmin …
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Does caste play a role in Indian cricket? It’s an old question which the Australian social historian Richard Cashman addressed in a landmark book Players, …
CHICAGO: A non-resident Indian has been accused of setting an apartment fire—killing his pregnant daughter, her husband and their young child—because his son-in-law didn’t ask permission for the marriage. Subhash …
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