In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

In the caste system of India, the family you're born into can determine a lot - where you live, who you marry, the jobs you'll have. Sujatha Gidla was born in untouchable - the lowest caste in Indian ...

Five years ago, at a playdate with one of my oldest girlfriends and our babies, I asked her about her experience with using a surrogate in India. We’re both Indian-Canadian living in Toronto, and I ...

In a virtual talk Tuesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson outlined the caste system of the United States, tracing the history of the form of social hierarchy from the nation's infancy ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In California, members of an under-the-radar ...

THIS refers to the letter ‘Discrimination against low-caste Hindus’ (Oct 20) by Vijesh Kumar. The worst sufferers as a result of partition are not the Hindus or the Muslims, in general, but the lower ...

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University Long before the outbreak of COVID-19, a more pernicious form of social ...

Manjeet Sarkar is an internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian who has been performing for 7 years. He has done six national tours in India of his solo show ‘Untouchable’, performed at the United ...