The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born ...

As India celebrates the 135th birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a man admired and revered across the nation, let’s revisit his social reform movements against the caste system, ...

Arun Kumar Gupta One night, under the vast, starlit sky of Gujarat, a young boy named Mool Shankar lay restless, questioning the traditions he had grown up with. Born into a devout Brahmin family, he ...

The socio-political differences between India’s north and south may have reduced with decades of assimilation but Hindu ...

Why whisper a mantra that everyone already knows This is not a rhetorical question. It is a gateway into one of the most profound, misunderstood, and yet widely practised spiritual traditions of the ...

The Vedic religion in its original form was barbaric ... He was vehemently against the caste system and untouchability and consciously nourished gender equality. Therefore, from all perspectives, ...