India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Despite the complexities involved in executing it, India is equipped to carry out ... such demands often stem from graded nature of the caste system. “Every caste other than the Brahmins suffers ...

Political parties committed to the Constitution must stand on the same platform with the agenda of social justice to ensure ...

The Purusha Suktam of the Rig Veda (10.90) is a profound hymn that envisions the Virat Purusha, the Cosmic Being, as the ...

Swami Vigyananand's new treatise outlines an eight-sutra framework for a just, secure, and spiritually grounded Hindu society ...

Following suit with other cities in California, Anderson has officially condemned discrimination based on caste. The effort ...

A Review of Rajendra Alwis’s book ‘Siddhartha Gauthama’ Gautama Buddha has been such a towering figure for over twenty six ...