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......

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......

3 Brahmin names that shake up the Yogi government

Khushi Dubey, Hari Shankar Tiwari and Mata Prasad Pandey represent the resentment among Brahmins towards the Adityanath government. Radhika Ramaseshan reports. IMAGE: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister......

'Abolish reservations and private education!'

'Where should shudra-OBCs go because of whom the nation is surviving?' Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters On March 15, 2021, the Supreme Court commenced hearing into whether the landmark 1992 verdict......

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,......

Where these stars got their looks from

Choreographer-director Farah Khan managed a coup of sorts when she got Salman Khan to appear on her new chat show Tere Mere Beach Mein with his mother, Salma, in tow. Few of us have actually......

Brace yourself for Explosion 2009

"I have ceased to exist," says Sonu Nigam. He is rehearsing for Explosion 2009, to be held at the Trump Taj Mahal Arena August 1; he takes off some minutes to talk about the show to be held in......

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......