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Caste in India

  • Manual scavenging deaths in Ahmedabad result in out-of-court settlements – not punitive justice

    Manual scavenging deaths in Ahmedabad result in out-of-court settlements – not punitive justice

    Aarefa Johari
    · Jan 15, 2023 · 09:00 am
  • Manual scavenging killed 19 people in Mumbai in past five years. But BMC records show zero deaths

    Manual scavenging killed 19 people in Mumbai in past five years. But BMC records show zero deaths

    Aarefa Johari
    · Jan 08, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • Humiliation outside ‘public view’: A verdict puts focus on a grave flaw in the SC/ST Act

    Humiliation outside ‘public view’: A verdict puts focus on a grave flaw in the SC/ST Act

    Rashmi Venkatesan
    · Nov 19, 2020 · 06:30 am
  • What researching cremations of the dead in colonial India taught me about life in our cities today

    What researching cremations of the dead in colonial India taught me about life in our cities today

    Sohini Chattopadhyay
    · Aug 23, 2020 · 07:30 am
  • A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

    A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

    Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
    · Aug 23, 2019 · 07:30 am