What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

The landslide victory of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections has created a perception that the voters have risen above caste and class considerations while ...

January is the month Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born, another leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated and is marked by the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. February is Black History Month ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Payal Tadvi was a 26-year-old postgraduate medical student at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital who allegedly died by suicide in May 2019 following severe caste-based harassment by three senior doctors For ...

The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by ...

The debates about caste and class in India go back many decades, but they remain relevant today, writes Steve Leigh in a review of a new book by Arundhati Roy. IN THE Doctor and the Saint, writer and ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...

CHENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his ...

This image is from the official trailer for “Origin” distributed by Neon. In a montage of the tragedies of race-based and caste-based oppression near the end of Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” Isabel ...