Sen. Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise in the Democratic Party has generated an endless stream of articles and conversations in the United States about her multifaceted identity as a black and Indian ...

The release of a Bollywood film chronicling the lives of two 19th-century anti-caste reformers in India has been delayed following protests from upper caste groups who have accused it of defaming ...

Apr. 24—One of the best of many excellent new books about race in America is Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Her main thesis is that racism in America is part of a larger ...

BSP chief invokes her party’s past support for Brahmins as she alleges caste imbalance in Uttar Pradesh while BJP counters ...

We already have a national anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana’. Why then the ruckus over a national song, ‘Vande Mataram’? Could it have something to do with the caste of the respective poets, both Bengali ...

Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.