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I am not thrilled to see the word "merit" being used so casually, but Rema Nagarajan's ToI news story captures the essence in...

S. Rukmini in has an interesting report in The Hindu -- ‘Quotas for education helped SCs, but boys alone reaped the benefit’ -- summarizin...

Curt Rice in The Guardian : Don't be fooled by the closing gender gap in science PhDs . [The researchers] found that historically men h...

A BBC news story on affirmative action policies in Brazil's federal universities . Almost all the arguments -- for affirmative action a...

Next Chief Justice of India favours reservation in higher judiciary . Unreserved on the rolls : "The merit argument is debunked as man...

NYTimes ran a story on the massive underrepresentation of women in the sciences -- Japan's "Science Women" Seek an Identity b...

Jennifer Carpenter at Science Insider summarizes yet another study whose results would appear to blame women for their low status in scienc...

WiseGeek: What does 200 Calories look like? Pictures of 200 Calories of Various Foods. Robert Cottrell (the editor of The Browser: Writing...

Even before the US Supreme Court sits down to hear arguments in the latest affirmative action case to land at its doorsteps, it has been get...

The Supreme Court has spoken : Other Backward Classes (OBC) students will qualify for admissions if they have 10 % less marks than the el...

That's the number of 16-18 year-olds who learned today that they are actually world-class, a privilege that allows all of them (and actu...

Three things that I came across on my Google Reader stream in the last week or so: Let me start with this NYTimes story : David Lammy, a...

Female Science Professor answers a reader's question about on how to deal with "professors emeriti who are well-meaning but who h...

The Nature India portal features an interesting column -- The Quality - Quantity Conundrum -- by two colleagues of mine, Prof. Gautam Desi...

Looks like this arbitrary, nationwide limit is now history : The Supreme Court today virtually lifted its 50 per cent cap on job and educat...

Some quick comments. First, some groups that have done extremely well to reach major milestones: SC Students have managed to fill all the...

Three links. In the first, Pratap Bhanu Mehta goes ballistic in opposing the very idea of a caste census. Scratch the surface a little bit...

The caste census is (most likely) on ! Let's hope the formal decision will be announced soon. To see the significance of this (impendi...

It's sad to read Anuradha Raman's Outlook story on the ongoing 'debate' within JNU on faculty reservations : Given [Vice C...

It was quite shocking that a bunch of JNU faculty members resorted to the same cliched arguments against reservations at the faculty level ...