ISSUE 6: CASTE &
INTERNET
An exploration of digital colonialism, algorithmic bias, and how the architecture of the internet reproduces and contests caste hegemony.
Caste & Internet
Colouring Caste: Encoded Emojis, Politics and Social Media in Tamil Nadu
Sanjay Pandy
The Political Economy of Online Crowdwork and Caste
Chetan Ashish
Digital Colonialism and the Architecture of Inequality: The Human Cost of India’s AI Data Center Boom
Nehal Sheware
The Digital Disciplining of Dalit Political Agency during the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly Election
Adhithyan K P
Gaming the AI Imaginary
Red Tokai
The Difficulties of Sensing Caste Digitally: A Case Study in Mysuru
Shraddha NV Sharma
From Manusmriti to Machine Learning: When AI Learns Caste
David Sathuluri
The Machine Learns on Stolen Land: Caste, AI, and the Ecologies of Digital Inclusion (and Extraction)
Dev Baraya