On the social plane, we have in India a society basedon graded inequality…elevation for some and degradation for others.” — ...

The UGC's new 2026 Equity Regulations aim to combat caste discrimination in higher education, mandating compliance and ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public intellectual, perhaps a scientist or a writer, someone still questioning power, ...

PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join William Brangham to discuss the year in politics, including President Trump's return to the White ...

India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content — a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one ...

Yashica Dutt is a Dalit journalist and author of the award-winning book on the Indian caste system, “Coming Out as Dalit.” She is currently working on her second book on caste in the US and lives in ...

In early October, Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate in Ohio’s 2026 governor’s race and former co-chair of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, headlined an event for ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

The ram air turbine, used when electrical power or hydraulic pressure fails, was deployed during an Air India flight that landed safely over the weekend. The same system had been activated during a ...

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people. When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in ...

Historian Sabastian debuts with an astute intellectual history of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement, that focuses on how it differs from European fascism. Tracing an eclectic collection of 20th ...

David Brooks’ call for disrupting the caste system (“Reforms need to overcome the new segregation” Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 22) will be even more difficult after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...