This blog examines how caste continues to operate in digital spaces, focusing on online matrimony platforms. While the internet enables openness and choice, these platforms reveal how caste adapts rather than disappears. Drawing on sociological perspectives and recent research, the blog argues that digital technologies do not dismantle caste but instead structure and normalise its reproduction in contemporary marriage practices.

This blog is about the career-oriented ambition of Indian students to study abroad and how it is shaped by inequalities. It examines how high costs and social privilege determine who is able to access overseas education. It also looks at how limited opportunities and uneven performance of Indian higher education act as push factors for students to look abroad. It highlights brain drain and the long-term implications of student outmigration. Finally, calls for the need to strengthen India’s educational and research landscape.