Indian society's caste system, rooted in ancient texts and practices, has evolved from a rigid varna model to a modern ...

Today, the Holberg Prize was conferred upon Indian Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway ...

Every 28 May, we observe World Menstrual Hygiene Day, a time to underline the significance of menstrual health. In some parts of the world, we imagine women living free from taboos and stigma ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...

NEW DELHI -- India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...

Aravindan Neelakandan in his 'A Dharmic Social History of India' has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the ...

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral ... as opposition from the Hindu and Indian American communities ramped ...

These structures are classic examples of ancient ingenuity in designing waterharvesting structures writes AARTI KELKARKHAMBETEPeople in the olden times knew the importance of water and had devised a n ...

The roots of the term ‘pariah’ lie in the name of a caste group called ‘Pariayar’, which originated in Tamil Nadu. In the ...