In this concluding part of the interview, based on his book The Caste Con Census, Anand Teltumbde examines how Hindutva politics and neoliberal capitalism jointly stabilise caste inequality by depoliticising it, one through cultural homogenisation, the other through market rationality....
In this second part of the interview, Anand Teltumbde argues that caste inequality in India persists not because of a lack of data, but because social justice has been reduced to managerial fixes detached from universal welfare and redistribution. He...
This article by Dr Madhusudan Nag examines the lynching of Ram Narayan Baghel in Kerala as a symptom of a deeper crisis in India’s internal migration regime. Moving beyond the language of welfare and labour protection, it exposes how caste,...
In this first part of the interview, Anand Teltumbde revisits the historical and political foundations of caste, challenging reductionist explanations that locate it solely in Brahminism. Drawing on his recent book, The Caste Con Census, he examines caste as a...
This article by K. T. Rammohan reflects on the life and political–intellectual journey of T. G. Jacob (1951–2022)—activist, editor of Mass Line, and a Marxist political economist whose work consistently challenged academic enclosure, party bureaucratism, and the ideology of development....
Ram Narayan Bhaiyal, a 31-year-old migrant worker from Chhattisgarh, was brutally assaulted to death by a group of local residents near Walayar in Kerala’s Palakkad district on 17 December 2025. In the aftermath of this mob lynching, Ambika—journalist and editor...
In this powerful intervention, social activist and journalist Baburaj Bhagavathy examines the brutal killing of Ram Narayan at Walayar as more than an isolated crime. Situating the incident within the broader rise of mob lynching, Hindutva vigilantism, and everyday Islamophobia...
In this evocative essay, Tanya Matthan re-examines India’s “tubewell revolution” through the lived experiences of Dalit farmers in central India. Challenging dominant environmental narratives that overlook caste, the article demonstrates how access to groundwater can lead to dignity, autonomy, and...
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile is a fierce and compassionate collection of essays that confront some of the most painful truths of our time. From Gaza to Manipur, from Adivasi homelands to the streets of Delhi, Sengupta writes with...
Why does the world’s largest democracy remain silent even as its freedoms shrink? Asokakumar V’s sharp, uncompromising analysis shows how India’s political parties, shaped by colonial bureaucracy and feudal hierarchy, have captured the public sphere and muted genuine democratic expression.
