When one upholds an identity, they are also committing to embrace many opinions and perceptions that come with it. What people often forget or choose not to highlight is how multiple identities can co ...

The surging “cockroach” youth protest movement is prompting citizens in the world’s most populous nation to unite behind democratic rights, especially ...

Nearly eight years ago, a young PhD student from India made a startling declaration about his identity right before he died by suicide. “My birth is my fatal accident,” Rohith Vemula wrote in a letter ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

But for many advocates and student leaders, the tweak to California State University’s anti-discrimination policy that quietly went into effect on January 1 was a civil rights victory: An ...

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...

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For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die. When Oscar Wilde said this in one of his poems, he was probably referring to the dual lives homosexual individuals lived in the ...

Digital art depiction of Rita Meher with a movie film strip in the background. Meher is the co-founder and executive director of Tasveer, a Seattle-based arts organization that hosts the largest South ...

India is once again arguing about whether to count caste. In April 2025, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs decided that India’s next census—Census 2027, our first digital headcount—would ...