The speakers spoke about how a few films on the issue of caste have started to split the film industry on caste lines. This was the practice in Vellankoil. I shot this same issue in the same place in ...

To help combat caste-based discrimination, the Indian government saves spots at the best Indian universities for lower-caste students, who often take that opportunity and turn it into a tech job in ...

Of course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line, exacerbating the caste animosities to build vote banks. “Jaati na poocho sadhu ki, pooch ...

Betul: In the tribal-reserved Betul Lok Sabha constituency, Pulwama terror attack, national security, Rafale deal, Nirav Modi and even chief minister Kamal Nath’s ...

Google employees grilled leaders on Thursday after the company canceled a talk on caste bias. Some employees had complained that the event's speaker, an advocate for India's lowest-ranked caste, was ...

Multiple voice recordings in circulation on WhatsApp have brought to light how even those living outside the country helped mobilise opposition to VCK leader Tirumavalavan’s visit to a village in ...

Economic crisis has pushed Indian tea workers to seek employment outside the plantations, forcing them to re-engage with the caste hierarchy from which their ancestors attempted to escape. Tea pickers ...

Nineteen-year-old Ginni Mahi is a Punjabi folk, pop and hip-hop musician who uses her music to challenge the caste system. Ginni grew up in a Dalit community, considered the lowest caste in India.

The British-Indian community represents the largest ethnic minority group in the UK. While Indians have become an integral part of society, the Indian community remains divided by the issue of caste ...

Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” is one of the year’s most highly anticipated books, coming a decade after her widely acclaimed account of the Great Migration, “The Warmth of ...