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Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is in theatres. It follows a lower-caste boy’s struggles as he falls in love with an upper-class woman.
Delhi’s street vendors feared health labels on samosas, but deeper anxieties persist—caste hierarchies, anti-encroachment ...
Article 15 of the Indian Constitution minces no words with its prohibition of discrimination “against any citizen on grounds ...
The recent killing of C. Kavin Selvaganesh, a Scheduled Caste youth, just because he was in love with a girl of an intermediate caste, has again spotlighted rampant caste pride in southern Tamil Nadu.
Oliver Cromwell Cox, a Marxist economist and author of Caste, Class, and Race (1948), strongly rejected the notion of caste to define American race relations.
Shazia Iqbal's ‘Dhadak 2’, a remake of the Tamil film ‘Pariyerum Perumal’, is a harrowing look at casteism in higher ...
The city of Seattle became the first U.S. jurisdiction to include caste as a protected class in ordinance CB12051, “An Ordinance Relating to Human Rights; Including Protections Against ...
A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be ...
Dhadak 2, a daring commentary on caste-based discrimination and violence, released in theatres today, August 1, 2025. The fact that the movie hit the screens days after the alleged honour killing of ...
The Bhils, one of the biggest Adivasi tribes in India, consider themselves direct descendants of Lord Shiva and his wife, ...
Jeffrey Brown: In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr., visiting India and seeing its caste system, realized he was a kind of untouchable in his own land. It's one of many stories told in the new book ...
V S Achuthanandan, a staunch Marxist known for his sharp rhetoric, anti-corruption stance, and unwavering commitment to ...