Carmel Christy K J has previously received Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship and Charles Wallace Trust Short-Term Grant to conduct research. She is currently an affiliated fellow at the ...

(RNS) What Aslan should have done is give voice to the scores of contemporary Hindu spiritual leaders who reject the notion that Hinduism or its scriptures sanction a birth-based hierarchy or ...

Hindus were taken aback when giants like Apple Inc. and the California State University system adopted policies about caste-based discrimination (CBD). They did not think or hear of CBD or practice or ...

Section 703 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Why not include “caste” in this list? The question has been asked for several ...

Virupaksha actor Ravi Krishna has alleged caste-based bias in Telugu cinema, claiming he lost film projects after being asked to share documents like his PAN and Aadhaar cards. The actor opened up ...

In 1934, 17 German legal scholars gathered in Berlin to create the legal framework for an Aryan nation. They began by asking how the Americans had done it. The U.S. was centuries ahead, in terms of ...

In “Full Metal Jacket,” a critically acclaimed film about the Vietnam War, there’s a two-minute long scene whose cultural legacy has endured far beyond its 1987 debut. A Vietnamese woman, clad in a ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An all-woman band is shattering stereotypes of gender and caste in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, among the poorest and least developed in the ...

A meritocracy holds that if you work hard enough, you can succeed in life, regardless of race, religion, gender or social status. But a new study from UC Berkeley suggests that, despite egalitarian ...

The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes ...