Hyderabad: The Congress party on Tuesday challenged Backward Classes (BC) leaders within the BJP to respond to comments made ...

Filmmaker Manas Mukul Pal returns with Chandikatha, a poignant period drama set in 1950s rural Bengal that delves deep into ...

RJD MLA Munna Yadav has once again sparked controversy with a caste-based remark about Bihar’s politics. Yadav declared that ...

People from the lower rungs of India's strict social hierarchy say they're trapped doing jobs like cleaning sewers because of ...

V S Achuthanandan, a staunch Marxist known for his sharp rhetoric, anti-corruption stance, and unwavering commitment to ...

Ahmedabad: A dispute over underground electrical repair work in a residential society in Baroda village of Daskroi taluka escalated into serious alleg.

Caste-away: India's caste system may be impossible to dismantle, but Yashica Dutt wants to try Living a lie and “passing” as an “upper” caste Hindu opened doors, Yashica Dutt discovered ...

A Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, has proposed an ordinance to add caste to anti-discrimination laws that would make Seattle the first U.S ...

The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name.

The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name.

A bill to ban caste discrimination in California brings a global conflict to the Legislature. While many South Asian groups support the measure, some say it could backfire.

There's a simple reason for that, says author Shahu Patole, a 62-year-old retired civil servant and a Dalit. "To upper-caste Hindus," Patole says, "we were not even humans.