Guest post by MOHAN RAO “And yet there must be deliverance for we are all otherwise convicted at birth.” I want to thank Srivats and Anveshi for inviting to be part of a discussion about the book, Caste as Merit, by Ajantha Subramaniam.* I am not a scholar on these issues and I must confess … Continue reading Invention of Merit and the ‘Millstone of Caste’: Mohan Rao →
India is neglecting caste-based discrimination in higher educational institutions at its own peril. It was exactly 13 years back that the Thorat Committee, constituted in September 2006 to enquire into allegations of differential treatment of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students at the premier medical institute, AIIMS—was released. The first of its kind in independent … Continue reading Operation Eklavya in Action at Premier Institutes →
The institute’s recent order, now withdrawn, of separate entrance for non-vegetarians is just a part of the overall policing and push for vegetarianism after the Modi government’s ascent. Image Courtesy: Catch News Nagesh (name changed), a bright student at the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras, who hails from a very poor economic background, had … Continue reading IIT-Madras, a Modern Day Agraharam ? →
