Casteism is a social issue often associated with India, but its impact can extend beyond borders. Filmmaker Vikrant Kishore ...

Mina Anand is a Bangalore-based lawyer and author. This is the 21st Century. One would think that the evils of caste, creed, race would be relics of the past. Yet – oppression, racism, exploitation – ...

Vinu VV’s wooden sculptures capture the harsh reality of casteism in India. They reverberate with pain, but also with the determination of being seen ...

Former Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari, on Friday linked the recent attack at a clothing shop in Kotdwar in Uttarakhand, to rising casteism and language divides, describing them as symptoms of a ...

Approximately 50 people gathered in the Vandenberg Room at the Michigan League Saturday to discuss the ongoing role Hinduism plays in casteism both in India and abroad. The event, “Dismantling ...

All her life, Santana Das had watched from a safe distance as others entered the Shiva temple in Gidhagram village in Katwa sub-division in Purba Bardhaman district. Born into the Muchi (cobbler) ...

In the following article that appeared in Jeevadhara theological magazine in 2014, Indian theologian Father Felix Wilfred explains the need to create a Dalit cardinal and its pan-Indian ecclesial and ...

Caste divide and discrimination have been a boiling issue in India for eons. With time, the lack of facilities for scheduled caste and backward classes was compensated with so-called affirmative ...

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said if India is to become strong, self-reliant and developed, “we must beware of forces that weaken society by dividing it in the name of casteism.” Uttar ...

In 1884, an unusual case came up before the colonial Allahabad High Court. For months, the police had been tailing a person named Khairati on the suspicion that they were a “eunuch” after being tipped ...

Bageshwar Dham Peethadheesh Shri Dhirendra Krishna Shastri has said that India will not become a Hindu nation by abusing Muslims, urging that that Hindus must first address their own internal ...