If Raksha Bandhan is so fixated on the idea that it strengthens sibling bonds, then instead dictating the women, brothers should stand up as feminist allies and support their sisters in fighting against those aspects that make them disadvantaged.

The Congress would be better advised to fight for its own principled ‘Idea of a secular India’, whatever the electoral cost

India's composite and secular credentials, which were born out of processes that took four millennia to unfold, are being burned down within a few years in our times.

If a country records slow or retarding growth, it has only immediate policy failures to blame, not the deep unchangeable past or religion/culture

Opaque political financing, lobbying by corporate interests has caused control of corruption to fall in democracies like India and Australia, notes Transparency International

A few other works that are broadly related to this discussion:

What exactly does political dominance mean? Is there a fixed criteria? If winning the popular vote in elections is the sole criteria, then one would tend to agree with those who think the Rajput community,...

A contribution from the Partido Obrero Socialista of Mexico about an international scourge.

Has the participatory gap between social groups widened over the past decades? And if so, how can it be explained? Based on a re-analysis of 94 electoral surveys in eight Western European countries...

With ideologies withering and elections becoming more and more idol-centric, political parties across the world are spending a fortune on strategising campaigns that see voters as consumers.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said forces like the RSS want to “take India into the darkness of the past”

Author: Prof. Dr. Ebulfez Suleymanli Head of Department of Sociology, Uskudar University We need to get rid of the perspective shaped by the effect of anthropocentric (human-centered) approaches, particularly from […]

The rate of inter-caste marriages in India, as recently as 2011, was merely 5.82% and there has been no upward trend over the past four decades.

Police filed an FIR against unidentified people for “spreading false rumours about religious conversions". Rajratan Ambedkar, who himself issued certificates to the Valmikis, denied that the conversion held on October 14 was a rumour.

A large body of sociological research has found that in North America, young Asian men are twice as likely as Asian women to be single.

Keshav Sitaram Thackeray ‘Prabodhankar’ had joined BR Ambedkar in a movement to allow ‘untouchable’ to worship alongside Brahmins during Ganesh utsav in Mumbai.

Just as the West is re-examining its colonial and slave-running past, India should identify treatises that are anachronistic.

The journey home for migrants, triggered by the lockdown, is likely to have been an overwhelming experience. How has it influenced caste, India’s most pervasive social identifier? Social historian and cultural anthropologist Badri Narayan, director...

Alienation at work was described by Marx in the 1840s, but continues to be relevant today. The Industrial Revolution forced people into unfulfilling factory jobs that estranged them. The problem pe…