In Lakshmi’s Secret Diary, Ari Gautier crafts a dazzling, multi-layered narrative that is as whimsical as it is profound.

Caste systems are a type of structural discrimination based on work and descent. There are many global caste systems and the South Asian caste system is one of the oldest in the world.

Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...

The Indian Army still uses old British-era names and recruits soldiers based on caste or region, which hurts national unity, ...

Most children in India are taught about the four-fold caste system that emerges in the Vedas. However, in real life, these four categories are not distributed equally across India. In North, South, ...

After the Pahalgam attacks on April 22 in India-administered Kashmir had killed 26 civilians – the militants mainly had targeted Hindu tourists, however, there was also a Christian tourist and a ...

Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have called for action against right-wing Hindu activists who assaulted and ...

Uncovering India's genetic richness through comprehensive genomic mapping reveals unique ancestry and health implications for ...

Maratha dominions and other Indian states had developed fairly detailed caste enumerations, used to regulate hierarchies and ...

The Brooklyn-based Sikh American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his ...

A fragile truce now holds between the two long-standing adversaries, bringing their twelve-day war to an end. Ravi has spent ...