Ramesh Baghel’s almost month-long legal battle this January to bury the body of his dead father in their village graveyard is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Barack Obama Such complacency is premature. The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called "Untouchables," the outcastes who for millennia ...

For hundreds of years, a hierarchical caste structure has repressed Indian society, sustaining various forms of exploitation and inequality. The ruling castes/c ...