New Delhi, Mar 6 (PTI) Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said there is a need to create a society where no one will feel discriminated against on the basis of their gender, caste or religion.

This past April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan was scheduled to give a talk about caste to employees at Google News. Soundararajan is a Dalit rights advocate — someone who works against caste-based ...

The story so far: The Supreme Court of India ruled on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) that a Pastor from the Madiga community in Andhra Pradesh could not claim to be a member of a Scheduled Caste as he had ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

Avimukteshwaranand, the Shankaracharya or head of Jyotish Peeth in Uttarakhand's Joshimath, has announced plans to launch a two-lakh-strong 'army'. Currently in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the religious ...

(RNS) — When Sen. Strom Thurmond and other Southern Democrats set out to defeat the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s, they argued that there was no need to take any measures to counter ...

Avimukteshwaranand plans to launch a 2,18,000-strong army called Chaturangini Sena. The army will include male, female, and third-gender soldiers from all Hindu castes. Chaturangini Sena aims to ...