Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. A newsletter on Indian politics (though this week, it intersects quite a bit with global politics). As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like ...

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP (SP)) MP Supriya Sule's recent interview has reignited the debate on whether caste or economic criteria should be the basis for reservations. In ...

The BJP fought the 2026 Assembly elections on the pitch that it would end the OBC policy pursued by the Mamata Banerjee ...

Grandsons of Dalit leader Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar are appealing to the community to mention their original caste in the caste ...

A bench headed by Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observations while hearing a plea challenging a Karnataka ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab ...

A 23-YEAR-OLD dressed in white pyjama trousers and a black over-shirt represents two worlds in India that know almost nothing of each other. One is fast growing, but tiny: the world of business.

Uma Bharti delivered an unapologetically hardline defence of reservation, declaring that the system cannot and should not end until India's deepest social inequalities are dismantled ...