Daily Brief: Why the Opposition’s support for a caste census falters in some states, and more

Why the Opposition’s support for a caste census falters in some states

In three states – Karnataka, West Bengal and Kerala – governments run by INDIA bloc parties are apprehensive of change in existing caste equations.

Notes from the West Bank: Hope amid a life staring down the barrel of a gun

Palestinians have come to be treated like outsiders in their homeland.

X accounts of Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights withheld in India

The two organisations have been carrying out advocacy on subjects related to minority rights and caste inequality in India.

Food and fear made for a highly corrosive cocktail in British India

Suspicions and anxieties were always bubbling under the surface in colonial India. When mixed with rumours, they often proved volatile.

EVMs are indispensable to elections and virtually impossible to manipulate: New book by former CEC

An excerpt from ‘India’s Experiment with Democracy: The Life of a Nation Through Its Elections’, by SY Quraishi.

From the memoir: When Gurcharan Das’s mother told him to stop reading Albert Camus’s ‘rubbish’

An excerpt from ‘Another Sort of Freedom: A Memoir’.

Badminton: Ayush Shetty’s rise from playing in backyard with father to Junior World C’ships bronze

Ayush Shetty was just 12 when he relocated from Sanoor near Karkala, in Karnataka, to Bangalore to chase his badminton dreams.

Olympics: ‘Monumental day’ – Saurav Ghosal as squash added to 2028 Games roster

Squash will make its debut at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

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