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Cracks within Congress, BJP Lingayat leadersAs Karnataka prepares for a caste survey, a divide has emerged within the Lingayat community regarding their religious identity. While the ...- Apex body urges Lingayats to seek separate religious identityAhead of Karnataka's socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat, pushi...
- Karnataka Caste Survey: Lingayats asked to identify themselves as separate religious group, distinct from HindusAs Karnataka prepares for a socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat...
- Model Code of Conduct turned into 'Modi code of conduct' under BJP rule: Mamata BanerjeeMamata Banerjee criticizes Election Commission for ignoring hate speeches by BJP, accusing PM Modi of targeting minorities and lower caste,...
- Faith in honesty, belief in corruptionReligiousness is defined in terms of attendance to places of worship and adherence to other religious beliefs and practices. These underlie...
- Rising prices threaten Modi’s hold on India’s most crucial stateSoaring prices, joblessness and health complications from a wave of delta-fueled Covid-19 infections last year are high on the minds of vot...
- 17th Lok Sabha: In many ways, the new lower house will break old patternsThe 17th Lok Sabha will have 27 Muslim members — more than the previous one. Over half of them have been elected from non-Muslim majority c...
- Study throws light on rising wealth & consumption inequality in IndiaThe gap between the forward and other castes is becoming wider over the years, according to a World Inequality Database study.
- Religious freedom conditions continued 'downward trend' in India in 2017: USCIRFUS Commission for International Religious Freedom in its latest report has placed India in the Tier 2 countries of particular concern along...
- View: India cannot become a modern economic powerhouse without shedding casteAfter India obtained Independence, anti-caste movements have withered. Social mobilisation against caste has given way to caste solidarity ...
- Blame caste for Pakistan's violent streak, not faithPakistani Punjab, accounting for 60% of the country's population and 80% of its army, is dominated by peasant communities that place a prem...
- Why parties can't grasp the real AmbedkarHindutva ideologues seek common cause with him, saying Ambedkar was anti-Muslim and anti-communist, and that he chose Buddhism rather than ...
- RSS stealing my show, says Hardik PatelHardik Patel has said that he feels the RSS is making an attempt to hijack his movement that has challenged castebased reservation in gover...
- Poke Me: Caste is Hindutva’s enemy (Readers' React)This week's "Poke Me" invited your comments on "Poke me: No matter what caste or outcast, Mohan Bhagwat wants more Hindus".
- Poke me: No matter what caste or outcast, Mohan Bhagwat wants more HindusThe answer to the hyper-competitive politicisation of caste-herds does not lie in the annihilation of reservations. It lies in forcing a ch...
- In new light: Now, RSS says BR Ambedkar supported Ghar WapsiThe RSS move is the latest in a series of attempts by political and ideological groupings to appropriate one of India’s greatest leaders.
- Hindus, Muslims must change their mindset: Markandey KatjuIf Hindus and Muslims want to become "real Indians", they must change their mindset, Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katj...
- Narendra Modi uses caste card to reply to Priyanka's barbsAddressing an election rally in UP, Narendra Modi said people from the lower castes have been looked down upon and made to sit "outside".
- Hindu groups clash over anti-caste discrimination lawAs UK is set to vote on a controversial amendment to include caste among other forms of discrimination.
- Mayawati all charged UP to replicate social engg modelUndeterred by the setback in Gujarat elections, BSP chief Mayawati proposes to repeat the Uttar Pradesh experiment in all prominent states ...
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