The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

The streets of Chennai, formerly Madras, India's fourth largest city, are jammed with bikes, buses, trucks and cars, all careening in and out and around each other, honking incessantly and largely to ...

In 1995, I was on research leave at United Theological College in Bangalore, India. There I met a Christian student by the name of Johnson Roosevelt Petta. Christian Indians usually have biblical ...

Pope Francis has canonized Devasahayam, a convert from upper caste Hinduism to Christianity. An 18th-century Indian Christian who devoted his life to speaking out against the caste system has become ...

The top court in southern Indian Tamil Nadu state has ruled that persons marrying under the Christian personal law should be considered to have converted to Christianity and abandoned their ...

The caste system is a system in India which depicts the order of power that each person would have. Read more to find out the current state of the caste system in India. Photo by Artem ...

A socio-economic survey initiated by Karnataka state in southern India has become controversial after the state prevented Christians from entering their caste, following opposition from Hindu groups.

Members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes District Coordination Committee has opposed the State government’s move to include sub-castes with Christian suffix in the caste ...

Karnataka BJP delegation during their meeting with Backward Classes Commission Chairman Madhusudan R. Naik. IANS Bengaluru: A Karnataka BJP delegation met Backward Classes Commission Chairman ...

Bengaluru: Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has cautioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah against including Christian identifiers with caste names like 'Kumbara Christian', 'Kuruba Christian' in the ...

Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...