“People think casteism only comes in the form of beatings or open abuse, but nowadays, it also comes in the form of subtle gestures,” Dr. Lakshmanan, an associate professor at the Madras Institute for ...

An Allahabad High Court order recommending the inclusion of content on the dangers of caste prejudice in school curriculum has come as a jolt for the national textbook preparation body, which has ...

A provocative new book warns that counting castes may entrench them further instead of dismantling the system.

A century after the last caste count, India faces hard questions: will counting caste expose inequality—or entrench it under ...

Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

I love it when the promise in an anthology’s preface is fulfilled. Co-editor RT Samuel writes that the entries in The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF – edited by Samuel, Rakesh Khanna, and Rashmi Ruth ...

If you've read novels like The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, you'll be painfully aware of the ubiquitous discrimination against Untouchables -- or Dalits - ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And turning now to the United States, where our next guest says the death of Tyre Nichols is the latest tragedy to shine a light on the nation’s ...

The Buddhist scholar, the venerable Piya Tan, translator of sutras on www.dharmafarer. org and a very reputed Buddhist teacher recently published a post on Shri B.R.Ambedkar, which received a large ...