Banning booze in Bihar has empowered gangs and illicit markets in an echo of the 1920s. Here's what went wrong ...

This was the foundation of ancient India’s education system ... Now, I won’t pretend it was a perfect system. There were some less-than-stellar aspects, like caste-based exclusions that ...

In India, politics inextricably links with caste. The caste system in India is becoming increasingly entrenched and its influence on politics is growing stronger, despite initial hopes that its ...

Modern or medieval or ancient. In India we label these 4 classes as Brahmins, kshtriya, Vaishya and Sudra respectively. Whereas, Caste is something else altogether ... Also, in the absence of rule of ...

The quest for Vedic civilisation is a dream project of the caste-Hindus in India directed by the syndrome of Brahmanical cultural nationalism and the homogeneity of tradition.

New York Times journalist Isabel Wilkerson in her excellent book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, compares and contrasts the Indian caste system. She also provides evidence that Nazi Germany ...

Slip-ups such as the one by Amit Shah in Parliament expose the fragile facade of Hindutva followers' claimed reverence for ...

Played with two sticks, the drum’s vibrations carry an ancient legacy, once used to announce royal decrees ... Yet, its history is as complex as its sound — an instrument, once praised, became a tool ...

While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been seeking a pan-India caste census, the party high command prevented the tabling of a caste survey report, commissioned a decade ago, in party-ruled Karnataka ...

A recent paper critically examines the ahar-pyne system in South Bihar, India, challenging the romanticised view of ...