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The flawed application of a Christian-European lens to the understanding of Bharat’s social organisation laid the foundations for its contemporary interpretations

Demanding that the fishermen community and its various groups be defined as SC before they are enumerated, Nishad Party chief and UP Minister Sanjay Nishad says the caste census should be Aadhar-based and done through technology like an App to remove irregularities

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue—and something else, too?

Let’s take the example of Bhagmati and the Kohinoor. Supposedly, separated in time by over three quarters of a century, among the many enigmatic nuggets of medieval India’s history of the Deccan, both Bhagmati and the Kohinoor diamond still remain inconclusive. Primarily, it is the travelogues of Jean Baptiste Tavernier that report about both the enigmas creating a fertile ground for fact, fiction and imagination to gallop. Tavernier, therefore, in a way becomes the pilot that sets sail both Bhagmati and Kohinoor in a single boat. The more these issues appear to have been resolved in wort...

Stunted Tourism, Apathetic Yogi Govt Throws Varanasi's Mallahs in Deep Waters While some boatmen are mulling giving up their traditional livelihood, some others have taken out loans they are struggling to pay back. Vijay Manjhi on his 30-seater boat. Photo: Rituparna Palit Rights22/Feb/2021 Varanasi: Prahlad Ghat is deserted except for a small group of men in shawls, playing cards on a usual winter weekday afternoon. Pintu Sahni, a boatman, squats on the stairs that lead to the Ganga. Every time he sees a person approaching the Ghat – one of the 84 in Varanasi – he stands up and wal...