Tag: Reservations

A recent issue of Outlook magazine had this interesting piece, which asserted that the EPW’s influence on governmental policy-making is considerable. If true, this probably explains why EPW editorials, more than other newspapers, adopt a …

With the Supreme Court’s Pasayat-Panta Bench refusing to vacate the stay on the applicability of the CEI(RA)Act to the OBCs this academic year, there is now a dire need to look at possible options for …

The “Idea Exchange” section of today’s Sunday Express has an interview with the academic Christophe Jaffrelot, whose area of specialisation is Hindu nationalism. While the idea of having several journalists interview a single public figure …

Marc Galanter’s classic, Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India was published in 1984, a few years before the Mandal I controversy erupted in 1990. Many years have gone by, and in the …

As the Supreme Court’s hearing on April 23 of the Government of India’s application for vacation of stay on S.6 of the CEI(RA) Act approaches, there is some clarity on the contending arguments likely to …

Today’s Hindustan Times has a column by the sociologist Gail Omvedt who argues that the recent stay order on OBC quotas and the government’s response to it, point to the need for a caste-based census …

The SC’s Pasayat-Panta Bench has clarified that the March 29 interim order was indeed a stay of S.6 of the Central Educational Instituitons (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 with regard to OBCs, and not an …

As the quota debate continues to rage in the media, evidence of gaps in understanding the issue has come to the fore even among well-known observers and recognized experts.Today’s Times of India carries the article …