Videos purportedly showing policemen pushing and shoving sadhus and batuks, followed by the Shankaracharya sitting on a dharna in protest, went viral on social media, triggering anger among Brahmins.

Uttar Pradesh, often considered the heartland of Indian politics, has always been a hotbed of political activity. But lately, the political climate of the state has become particularly heated. This ...

In Indian social discourse, certain assumptions have been repeated so often that they are now accepted as truth, even when historical outcomes do not support them. One such assumption is that the ...

What began as a quiet get-together of Brahmin legislators during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly’s winter session has triggered loud political tremors within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), forcing the ...

We already have a national anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana’. Why then the ruckus over a national song, ‘Vande Mataram’? Could it have something to do with the caste of the respective poets, both Bengali ...

According to the BJP sources here, newly appointed state party president Pankaj Chaudhary has told the MLAs that such meetings were not ‘in accordance with the traditions’ of the party.

With the Bihar State Commission for Development of Upper Castes leaving it to the state government to decide whether “Bhumihar Brahmin” should replace “Bhumihar” in official records and caste ...

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Santosh Verma, whose comment on Brahmin women led to outrage, has created another storm with his allegation that the high court stopped Scheduled Tribes (ST ...

The appointment of Dr. V. Maitreyan as vice-president of the DMK’s Educators’ Wing has made him perhaps the first Brahmin to hold an organisational post in the Dravidian party. The former Rajya Sabha ...

The Brahmin Blunder: Unpacking Peter Navarro’s Caste Confusion While Brahmins are at the top of the traditional Indian caste hierarchy, historically associated with priestly and scholarly duties, they ...

US advisor Peter Navarro`s use of "Brahmin" to describe Indian elites involved in oil trade with Russia sparks controversy and political debate. Peter Navarro, Counselor to the US President for Trade ...