It's Time to Update Army Regiment Names

The Indian Army still uses old British-era names and recruits soldiers based on caste or region, which hurts national unity, argues Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd). Illustrations: Dominic......

Caste survey: 34% Bihar families earn less than Rs 200/day

More than a third of families in Bihar are making do with an income of Rs 200 or less a day, while the number of SC-ST families living on similar earnings is nearly 43 per cent, according to the......

Bihar cabinet approves raising quota cap to 75%

Hours after tabling the Caste Survey report in the assembly, the Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday passed a proposal to raise the quota for SCs, STs, Other Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, and......

Third gender marked as 'caste' in Bihar's caste-based survey

The much publicised ongoing exercise of the headcount of social groups in Bihar by the state government has run into fresh controversy over enumeration of members of 'third gender' as a separate......

The Ash-Abhishek wedding, kayastha style

The much awaited nuptials ofAbhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Raihave generated great curiousity in academics and traditionalists. Though Abhishek is an amalgam of different castes and cultures he is......

Review: Article 15 will live with its audience

'Even though the film focuses on caste discriminations in rural India, it is first of all a riveting police procedural, and one of the best made in India,' says Aseem Chhabra. Towards the......

Saeed Jaffrey: The Great Entertainer

'Sent off to interview him in the late 1970s I met him in a cafe in New Delhi's Regal Building called The Parlour. With impromptu send-ups of Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and the rich,......