Internet lingo catches up in Vijayawada

Edit The Hindu 21 Jul 2016
The English language has always been influenced by culture and today’s Internet culture is no exception ... “Whether this impact is positive or not is popularly debated ... Nambiar said ... “This could probably be due to the countless hours one tends to spend online or with technology rather than manually interacting with people,” says Dvija Sree, a DPS student ... ....

Muslims that 'minority politics' left behind

Edit The Hindu 08 Jun 2016
A first poison may come out of its immediate effects on men’s minds; it may speedily antagonise the Dvija without as speedily influencing the Sudras. With his undoubted alertness to developments and his capacity to mislead, the Dvija may succeed in heaping direct and indirect discredit on the practitioners of this policy long before the Sudra ......

Caste census and the OBC bandwagon

Edit Deccan Chronicle 14 Aug 2015
Caste is central to all debate and discourse in India today. Yet, though new social groups periodically seek reservations in the name of caste, when it comes to counting different blocks we are squeamish ... This was because a fifth category was created in the Hindu social order ... Dvijas and non-Dvijas — the twice born with right to wear the sacred thread and the once born with no right to don the janeu ... The Man, the Times ....
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