Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public intellectual, perhaps a scientist or a ...

Recently Bharadwaj was the target of online abuse and harassment for speaking her mind. 73 individuals including media professionals have been booked in the case ...

The refusal to acknowledge casteism is a structural response to Dalit assertion, an indignation sparked by outspoken Dalit, Adivasi and OBC students. Students who file caste discrimination complaints ...

How an investigative report forced the Supreme Court to confront entrenched caste discrimination in India’s prisons—and why change remains elusive ...

Indian cities promise freedom, but caste segregation persists in housing, jobs, and neighborhoods. An economist explains ...

2005-06-23 04:00:00 PDT New Delhi-- A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her ...

Seven men from Hindu upper castes were killed at a roadside restaurant in India's crime-prone Bihar state, the latest caste-related violence in the region, police said Sunday. The killings occurred ...

NEW DELHI — The president of India recently received a letter from a young man in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It included graphic details of how the writer said he had been abused by police ...

As India debates caste discrimination once again aftert the new UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulation 2026, in courts, campuses, and politics, a large-scale Pew ...

Speaking at a conference titled ‘Increasing Caste Atrocities against SCs in Southern Tamil Nadu’—organised by the ...