In an interview with Frontline, the Dalit poet and thinker Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy discusses Buddha, Basava, and Ambedkar’s ...

Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...

In fact Phule’s anti-caste fervour, his growing number of village ... in 1946 and discussing the Shudra varna in detail, had dedicated his seminal work to Jyotirao Phule, whom he considered ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

As the DOGE revelations continue to emerge—revealing everything from the hilarious to the outrageous projects that Americans have been forced to fund—we should not be surprised by the shrieking of the ...

The Quranic perspective, as interpreted by scholars like Rahman, Esack, and Donner, challenges the notion of Islamic exclusivism by affirming the universality of divine guidance and the ...

Inheriting an anti-upper caste party in a BJP-dominant India is not a privilege by any measure. Unlike elite political dynasties, where succession is often about expanding power, Shudra dynasties ...

Different caste groups may follow different ways of worshipping a deity but members of no caste group can claim that a temple belongs only to them and therefore, only they have an exclusive right ...

Last day of Maha Kumbh 2025: The Mela, which began on January 13, was expected to draw over 40 crore visitors over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world. However, ...

The Bench went on to write: “The practice of listing specific caste names in the temple invitation solely on the basis of financial contributions is unwarranted, especially when the exclusion of ...

Dale Shudra, with law (LLB) and business (MBA) degrees, believes he has what it takes to win back Kootenay Columbia riding. — Submitted photo With the next Federal Election less than two years away, ...