Utpal is a Senior Assistant Editor based in Guwahati. He covers seven states of North-East India and heads the editorial team for the region. He was previously based in Kathmandu, Dehradun and ...

Two non-Brahmin priests at a Tamil Nadu temple, appointed under a landmark caste-inclusive reform by the state government, have accused hereditary priests there of barring them from entering the ...

It was all clubbed under the umbrella term of honour of a village. And young couples were forbidden from falling in love within a village, with neighbouring villages and within a clan or gotra. After ...