"Dhandoraa" movie review highlights its compelling anti-caste narrative, strong performances, and impactful transformation ...

This film gained traction through publicity, with expectations rising after the success of The Court, which addressed a ...

The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

Ava DuVernay’s return to feature filmmaking doubles as a thematic homecoming. Origin, loosely adapted from Isabel Wilkerson’s tome Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is, at its core, a deeply ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

The antecedents of caste are generally mired in speculation and popular mythography. Among modern scholars of the subject, the question of the past, and therefore, that of religion, religiosity, ...

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Kannanari’s The Menon Investigation uses the frame of a crime thriller to expose the deep entrenchment of caste and patriarchy in modern India. Through its flawed protagonist Vijay Menon, the novel ...

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made several costly miscalculations in this year’s general election. He overestimated his own popularity. He underestimated the extent of economic angst, ...

The veteran Marathi litterateur, Sharankumar Limbale’s Sanatan (translated by Paromita Sengupta) is among the most ambitious ...