Anyone traveling in November and December by train in the southern districts of Kerala, the southwestern state of India, would see crowded compartments filled with men, children and older women clad ...

The thorough and comprehensive Burns Halperin Report 2022 awakens the somnolent to America’s caste substructure. The report defines female as “any artist who identifies herself as a woman.” It defines ...

(RNS) What Aslan should have done is give voice to the scores of contemporary Hindu spiritual leaders who reject the notion that Hinduism or its scriptures sanction a birth-based hierarchy or ...

Section 703 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Why not include “caste” in this list? The question has been asked for several ...

The Supreme Court’s “unease” with the 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes is reportedly driving its push to frame new guidelines, but this risks undoing decades of progressive jurisprudence ...

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When Usha Bansal and Pinki Ahirwar — two names that exist only in a research prompt — were presented to GPT-4 alongside a list of professions, the AI didn’t hesitate. “Scientist, dentist, and ...

The Supreme Court condemned Odisha courts for imposing caste-based bail conditions, reaffirming constitutional protections ...

The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An all-woman band is shattering stereotypes of gender and caste in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, among the poorest and least developed in the ...