Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities ...

The media industry glorifies whiteness. Actors and models have been promoting fairness products. Dark-complexioned girls are ...

Caste, derived from casta, is now deeply linked with India's ancient social structure, the varna system, in which esoteric individuals based on the work performed and, by extension, their place in ...

That the Indian politics is caste-based goes without saying. The projected caste census is the culmination of such politics. With each passing day, the casteist discourse will become shriller, for ...

The word ‘dharma’ is a relatively minor word in Vedic times, appearing barely 70 times in Rig Veda, indicating something that is foundational and stable. The wo ...

BJP’s Ram Madhav, undermines the values of the Indian Constitution and is a more sophisticated name for Hindu Rashtra’s agenda.

An Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author ...

As the Indian government announces a landmark caste census—long resisted, now embraced—these books offer insights into the layered histories, bureaucratic power plays, and sociopolitical stakes of ...

Caste Never Went Away: Violence, Humiliation and Resistance Still Shape Our Lives In our 75th Independence Day special issue, Outlook examined how the caste system endures—and what it will take ...