The question of color…operates to hide the graver questions of the self…The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world and become one’s key to the experience of others.

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

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But for many advocates and student leaders, the tweak to California State University’s anti-discrimination policy that quietly went into effect on January 1 was a civil rights victory: An ...

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

Jyoti Basu, CPI(M) leader and former chief minister of West Bengal, said in 1980 that only “rich and poor classes” existed in the state. | REUTERS In 1932, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore endorsed ...

The campaign has reignited a long-standing debate, with another section insisting that the language should be identified as Kamtapuri.

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena chief K Pawan Kalyan asserted that he has never practiced politics using the ...

As an institution of higher education founded on the principles of equitable access and inclusion, Brandeis University celebrates the diversity of its faculty, staff, students and alumni. It is in ...

Chennai: TVK govt on Saturday clarified that students’ caste details would not be included in school ID cards after criticism ...