Coverage
Caste in code and at work in tech: AI and algorithms, platforms and takedowns, the tech workforce and startups, gig and platform labour.
In focus
Investors say an IIT degree speeds up the trust start-up money runs on, and scholars trace that degree to caste advantage. Federal programmes for Dalit founders mostly lend.
Legal protection is the only means to guard the vulnerable from caste exploitation in places where dominant castes have privilege and preponderance.
Of the founders of India's first 100 unicorns, start-ups valued at US$1 billion or more, are IIT graduates.
Telangana says it is testing an allegation against a former chief minister. The notices have gone to Dalit families who have farmed Erravalli's assigned land for 60 years.
I am a farmer, without my land I am nothing.
Panchami land left in Tamil Nadu out of the land granted, the state's social justice minister told the Assembly, citing RTI replies.
Tests since 2023 find that chatbots and image generators reproduce caste hierarchy. Most are lab tests, not audits of hiring or lending tools in real use in India.
It reaffirms who is normal or fit to write an academic cover letter, by considering what is most likely or most probable.
Tests since 2023 find that chatbots and image generators reproduce caste hierarchy. Most are lab tests, not audits of hiring or lending tools in real use in India.
Students at a government college in Tamil Nadu questioned, on camera, a youth body's caste column that India's model donor questionnaire lacks. No reported explanation says what it was for.
For 111 days, viewers in India could not see Tarluvada's Dalit residents describe losing land to Google's data centre. The order came from the state police, and no one has explained it.
Investors say an IIT degree speeds up the trust start-up money runs on, and scholars trace that degree to caste advantage. Federal programmes for Dalit founders mostly lend.
A paper at this year's FAccT conference argues that auditing AI image models for caste bias one category at a time misses how caste works: as a ranking between groups.
Seattle and Fresno name caste in their civil rights codes. No state does. Where the protections stand in 2026, what the courts have said, and where California's case against Cisco has got to.
Dalit engineers in the US and India describe the same filter: questions that locate caste, referral networks, and reviews that read dominant-caste comfort as merit.
