In Rizal’s time, it was almost impossible to move up the ranks because birth and race pretty much dictated your place in ...

HYDERABAD: Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Saturday spoke about everyday forms of discrimination that continue to ...

Post-Independence India introduced affirmative action through different channels. Constitutional reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes came through Articles 15 and 16. State-level ...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by senior Congress leader K.C. Venugopal, at its meeting on Monday (February 9, 2026) castigated the government for what it described as a “caste system” in ...

Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle, or should I say turn turtle? For today ...

Mohan Bhagwat said the Sangh does not appoint its workers or leaders based on caste identity. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday asserted that caste is not a determining ...

new video loaded: Trump Officials Flip Food Pyramid With New Dietary Guidelines transcript The Trump administration released new dietary guidelines on Wednesday that flipped the food pyramid on its ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

David Brooks’ call for disrupting the caste system (“Reforms need to overcome the new segregation” Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 22) will be even more difficult after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar asserted the incompatibility of democracy and the caste system at the All India Speakers Conference. She likened the caste system to 'Amarbel,' a parasitic plant ...

Caste shapes every aspect of Indian culture and culture. As Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan writes in The Trauma of Caste, this “system of exclusion…ranks people at birth affects over ...

Autocracy rarely storms in with tanks– it usually begins with a government list that expands over time. Under Donald Trump, the government’s dragnet is turning toward naturalized Americans, making ...