What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

The BAFTA-nominated film “The White Tiger” tells the story of Balram, a poor but shrewd young driver in India battling against the country’s caste system. It’s based on the 2008 Booker Prize-winning ...

On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a university’s anti-discrimination policy that added “caste” as a protected class ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

January is the month Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born, another leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated and is marked by the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. February is Black History Month ...

A man wearing a face masks walks past an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu, India Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official trailer for “Origin” distributed by Neon. In a montage of the ...

Scholar Anand Teltumbde examines a country driven to a dead end, where the opposition is silent and citizens have been ...

In her address, Dr Sharma argued that the NCERT syllabus for students aged 12 to 14 reflects a clear ideological bias, particularly in its treatment of medieval Indian history. She noted that Muslim ...