KK Kochu spearheaded a cultural and democratic transformation in Kerala’s Dalit movement, steering it toward a cultural and democratic turn in the wake of the Mandal-Masjid era and the rise of ...

“I t is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in Being and Nothingness. It is as ...

Religion has historically functioned as both an ideological force and a mechanism for social regulation, evolving through ...

As the country celebrates the centenary of the historic encounter of Mahatma Gandhi with Sree Narayana Guru, we are reminded ...

The retreat of DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – from large parts of corporate America and the federal government may or may not sustain. It may not sustain especially if Democratic ...

Caste systems impact as much as a fifth of the ... They have a set hierarchy. Each varna has a line of work associated with it and they're handed down through family lines. Brahmins are at ...

An ongoing exhibition, featuring 150 sculptures from art patron Saloni Doshi’s collection, offers an interplay between artistic vocabularies from across time periods ...

This work is a reflection on the futility of the chatur varna caste system that plagues our society and our self-authored forms of discrimination. Also read: Designing a home that makes space for ...

The glee of the Congress—and that of a section of the Hindu and Muslim upper-caste elite—at the AAP’s defeat is, ironically, ...