Section
Ideas
The anti-caste intellectual tradition — argument, theory, and the thinkers who built it.
Reporting & essays
Who Counts as Dalit? The State's Answer: Not Those Who Choose Their Own Religion
As India's caste census approaches, a Supreme Court ruling reveals how the state defines Scheduled Caste status—not by lived discrimination but by religious conformity. The conversion exclusion shows that the Presidential Orders are instruments of power, not neutral classification.
By Editor9 min read
Caste Cannot Be Reformed. It Can Only Be Annihilated.
The Supreme Court's stay of anti-discrimination rules proves what Ambedkar taught: caste is a structure, not a prejudice. Sensitivity training, reservation lists, and legal prohibitions fail because they leave the religious and institutional architecture intact.
By Editor9 min read
India Has a Law Against Caste Violence. Its Courts Won't Use It.
Twenty years after the Khairlanji massacre, the Una acquittal confirms a durable judicial pattern: India's anti-atrocity statute works everywhere except in court.
By Editor8 min read
The Word Disappears. The System Remains.
Caste does not need its own name to function. It survives by borrowing the language of merit, tradition, and belonging.
By Editor2 min read
The Invisible Hierarchy: What Casteism Looks Like on a Tech Team
Casteism in tech doesn't announce itself. It runs on social capital, access, and silence — and the industry keeps calling it meritocracy.
By Editor1 min read
How Caste Began: Ambedkar's Endogamy Thesis
A twenty-five-year-old Indian student at a Columbia anthropology seminar in 1916 isolated the single mechanism that defines caste — and made most subsequent caste theory look like elaboration around a missing centre.
By Editor5 min read
Key figures
Anand Teltumbde
Scholar, author, civil-rights activist, and management professor
Asang Wankhede
Legal scholar, anti-caste author, and poet; DPhil (Law) candidate at the University of Oxford
B.R. Ambedkar
Jurist, Economist, Statesman, Social Reformer, Constitutional Architect
Namdeo Dhasal
Dalit Panther co-founder, poet, writer, and editor
Rohith Vemula (2015 suicide and institutional humiliation case)
PhD scholar in life sciences; student activist
Savitribai Phule
Educator, Poet, and Social Reformer
Sukhadeo Thorat
Economist, educationist, professor, and scholar