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We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...
The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities ...
Varna has kicked off the 2025 summer season on a strong note, with a notable increase in tourist arrivals and overnight stays ...
The Varna system as interpretated by the western scholars wasn’t at all a birth-based differentiation, argues Neelakandan with sufficient references.
Thus, Punjab’s chatur-varna system evolved quite differently from other parts of India. Brahmins played a minimal role. The royalty or Rajput influence was largely confined to the mountainous areas.
Only one aspect of Hinduism is common for all the different variants: the varna hierarchy. This is my personal account of why I rejected this discriminatory religion.
Jati refers to a community, and varna refers to a classification system which determines which jati is ‘high and pure’ (dvija) and which is ‘low and impure’ (adhama).
The erasure of caste or varna from the Class VI social science textbook has now been institutionalised. What was first attempted on the pretext of reducing the syllabus citing Covid-19 disruptions has ...
India news, Parliament Session news: 'I think you should replace Kharge. You are so intelligent, so gifted, so talented. You should immediately come and take the seat in place of Kharge. By and ...
The Varna System in Gandhi’s Theory of Civic Education While M K Gandhi was a critic of hierarchical caste and untouchability, he defended hereditary occupation. For Gandhi, learning how to make a ...
Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretary M V Govindan on Friday lashed out at the BJP-RSS accusing them of imposing the Chaturvarna system in the name of Hindutva politics.