Of the 33 judges currently on the Supreme Court, at least 10 are closely related to former judges, while an equal number had ...

The cornerstone of that “civilization” was the South’s rigid racial caste system, enabled and enforced ... 175 parents and kids,” Dr. Hereford remembered a half-century later.

Devdas (1935), produced by New Theatres, is an all-time hit. It made Pramathesh Chandra Barua (1903-1951) a star overnight ...

Adolescence left many contemplating several things - upbringing, peer influence, the challenges of being a teenager in the ...

“Kids from our caste don’t study. We live in a rented land in a mud ... The district vigilance committee, under section 14 of Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, and similar bodies under (SCs and ...

Shudra: The Rising (2012), directed by Sanjiv Jaiswal, which explored the brutal oppression of Dalits under the Hindu caste system, also encountered massive resistance at the time. Hyderabad-based ...

When Amit (name changed on request) was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, he was elated. “I was ...

Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950. Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance.