As key findings of 2014 and 2024 exercises vary, politicians and intellectuals from Backward Classes community are ...

Essential books about racism for all readers When it comes to understanding race and social justice in this country, authors ...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has now taken up a complaint of caste discrimination at the hands of the campus placement offices in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Adding an ironic layer to the hostility, MAGA supporters have hit back at Indians calling out racism by pointing to casteism and the rigid enforcement of caste endogamy within Indian communities.

Urbanisation is often cited as an antidote to the influence of caste in society. So, does politics rise above caste in urban pockets? Delhi is, perhaps, the only Union Territory (UT) with a large ...

This belief system transcends traditional boundaries of religion and caste. Historically performed by communities ... An Insider’s Vision by K.K. Gopalakrishnan seeks to bridge this gap. It vividly ...

The victim was from the Dalit caste, the lowest rung in the rigid Hindu caste system. This group is targeted for sexual violence in a country with high rates of crime against women. The unnamed victim ...

Rutgers University in the US has decided not to create a separate category for caste-based discrimination, stating it's already covered under existing policies. The decision was welcomed by Hindu ...

Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes under its then Chairman K Jayaprakash Hegde had submitted the report to Siddaramaiah on February 29 last year. With the Socio-Economic and Education ...

Map the System is back! Student teams will compete to map real-world complex problems using systems thinking. Some participate through classes, others independently. Some bring their own burning ...

Brandeis and the entire California State University system, as well as the city of Seattle. In 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination.