Young adults are faced with a world of choices when it comes to selecting a wardrobe food education friends vehicles cellphone eapplications entertainment and ideology However they are expected to sta ...

Some criticism is not bad but when the habit of condemnation and faultfinding becomes a national pastime we need to sound the danger bellsA strange culture of criticism pervades life these days where ...

Outraged by the controversy, Anurag Kashyap questioned how the Brahmins still exist if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully eradicated the caste system in India. In an Instagram post ...

While anti-caste movements attribute the deeply entrenched and codified chaturvarna (four divisions) system that defines ... After the end of the Mauryan empire, in the period of turbulence ...

Religion is a superstructural institution of human society, alongside entities such as caste, marriage, family ... The next phase of religious evolution accompanied the Gupta Empire’s establishment ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

NEW DELHI—When Amrita Mishra passed the bar exam, she rushed out to pick up one of the biggest perks of being a lawyer in India: an “Advocate” sticker to slap on the window of her car. The ...

The Gupta Empire contributed to culture, religion, and science. Hindu texts were organised into a unified canon, shaping Hinduism. The caste system also became more rigid during this period, reducing ...

The medieval era was marked by the rise of the Delhi Sultanate and the golden age of the Mughal Empire, celebrated for its architectural ... stratification and the establishment of the varna (caste) ...

Few can disagree with the observation that “the notion that an occupation is considered as ‘degrading or menial’ is an aspect of the caste system and untouchability.” The provision that ...

Everybody talks about the Manusmriti nowadays and links it to the caste system. But what exactly is it? To understand this, we must understand a little bit of Indian history. The Mauryan kingdom was ...

Bhagat Singh used to sow guns as a child in his family grounds of undivided Punjab in the previously undivided Bharat so that they would grow into firearms trees, which could be used in the ...