Six people, including a minor, were arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old college student for several days and ...

Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

Kirodi Lal Meena is the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the current Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan since 2018. He represented five different Assembly constituencies Mahuwa (1985 ...

Among the mostly savarna panelists, there was one Dalit woman, the poet Meena Kandasamy. She chose to speak in English to a Hindi-speaking audience and addressed the feminist perspective on caste.

He is only working to divide India and its people on caste lines. Such a leader should be boycotted,” said the Deputy Chief Minister while addressing the BJP Mahila Morcha program in Dausa in support ...

Discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of a vast global population has been justified on the basis of caste. In much of Asia and parts of Africa, caste is the basis for the ...

Seattle has become the first US city to ban discrimination based on caste after a vote by the city council. Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who wrote the legislation, said the fight against caste bias ...

Write to me: [email protected] It’s a familiar narrative: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda has overridden caste as the main factor of Indian politics, many claim. At first ...

California's legislature has become the first in the US to approve a bill banning caste discrimination. Legislators said the measure would protect people of South Asian descent who allege unfair ...

India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...

Caste-based discrimination practices in more than 1,300 jails across India, dating back to British colonial rule, have been declared unconstitutional by the country’s supreme court. Responding ...