(RNS) — Hindu organizations need to cease the knee-jerk response of branding public discussions of caste as Hinduphobic and acknowledge the inhumanity, injustice and oppression of the system. (RNS) — ...

In 1995, I was on research leave at United Theological College in Bangalore, India. There I met a Christian student by the name of Johnson Roosevelt Petta. Christian Indians usually have biblical ...

(RNS) — Last week, a federal district judge ruled against two California State University professors who claimed the university’s policy barring discrimination on the basis of caste violates the U.S.

As a powerful Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary in the Indian city of Nagpur, across town, hundreds renounced their Hindu faith and converted to Buddhism.

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

Ramman is a festival celebrated annually in late April during Baisakhi at the twin villages of Saloor-Dungra in Uttarakhand’s ...

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Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday termed the caste system as the main source of inequality and discrimination in society, and urged people from backward, oppressed, and marginalised communities ...

A 12-year-old girl in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, has been sent to a juvenile home, while her parents were arrested after a viral ...