Topic: Brahmanism

Four months before the Thirupparankundram controversy, MPs from the INDIA bloc had written separate but identical letters to President Droupadi Murmu and then Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, raising concerns about the conduct of Madras High Court Judge Justice G.R. Swaminathan.

In most parts of India, people have a complex and paradoxical relationship with feet—both their own and others’. On one hand, touching the feet...

Karnataka High Court judges, Justices V Srishananda and Krishna S Dixit, reportedly participated in an event, Vishwamitra, to mark the golden jubilee of the Akhila Karnataka Brahmana Mahasabha in Bengaluru, where they praised the contributions of the Brahmin community to society.

Several walls of a building at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi were defaced with anti-Brahmin slogans on Thursday, showed the photographs shared on social media.

When I was born, my mother didn't hold me in her hands. Because she was worried about giving birth to a female child. But Islam teaches that those who give birth to two female children and grow them with utmost love and care will be promised heaven.

The morally superior position of the supposedly caste-less vegetarians in twenty-first-century urban India is more derived from an aesthetic that neatly combines Brahmanism and...