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 ...

In a pioneering move to ensure government benefits for its general category members, the Syro-Malabar Church has instructed ...

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 ...

Maharashtra to set up Maratha reservation cell and District Collector helpline to help find records for Kunbi caste and verification certificates; minister warns action for negligence.

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 ...

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 ...

Karnataka Backward Classes Commission submitted caste census report, recommending 32% to 42% quota hike. Report: Muslims ...

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange Patil has launched an indefinite hunger strike at Antarwali Sarati after talks with a state ...

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.