DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

Malana’s “no-touch” rule requires outsiders to avoid touching villagers, houses, walls, temples and certain objects.

Shivraj Singh Yadav, a leader of Samajwadi Party and a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, sparked a huge controversy ...

Varanasi: In a landmark genetic study that provides significant evidence to refute the long-debated Aryan Invasion Theory ...

The text interrogates enduring narratives woven by established statistics on access and parity in Indian higher education.

Caste, by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson lingers, forcing a reckoning with the structures we live inside ...

The death of Sreenivasan has been met in Kerala with the solemnity befitting a lost oracle. Tributes paint him as the voice of the common man, a filmmaker who h ...

The Dalai Lama has spoken out about the discriminating caste system in India, which can be traced back around 2,000 years and is still practiced in some regions today. The New Indian Express reports ...

The ancient caste system still shapes India’s economy and access to opportunities. Despite affirmative action, its impact lingers, and exclusions persist Caste-based discrimination was banned in 1950.

India’s famed Emperor Ashoka was an ancient convert from Hinduism to Buddhism. He demonstrated that a person is NOT forced by others to convert from one religion to another. Today, “religious ...