Hindu texts often declare that the four goals of human life are dharma ethics artha wealth kama pleasure and moksha liberation As one goes through Hindu scriptu ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

Being an ancient religion Hinduism now is plagued with many wrong and false ideas about it These probably arose over time because people did not always adhere to the proper sources of knowledge Moreov ...

The Purusha Suktam of the Rig Veda (10.90) is a profound hymn that envisions the Virat Purusha, the Cosmic Being, as the ...

Following suit with other cities in California, Anderson has officially condemned discrimination based on caste. The effort ...

Swami Vigyananand's new treatise outlines an eight-sutra framework for a just, secure, and spiritually grounded Hindu society ...

In the vast tapestry of Hindu traditions, some customs are quietly followed without question, passed down through generations ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and ...