The poorest, lowest of all Hindu castes -- once called untouchables and now called dalits (meaning the oppressed) -- have started spawning millionaires.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011
Contrary to the wide academic conflation of caste and Hinduism, the practice of caste-based discrimination is in contradiction to the Hindu teaching that each individual is equally divine and has the potential to realize God based on his effort.
Jon Foreman | Posted 05.25.2011
In many ways, words are metaphors pointing to the objects they represent.
Ellis Cose | Posted 05.25.2011
Some 60 years after India's "untouchables" gained equal status under the law, many of their fellow citizens still see them as the lowest of the low. But in one boarding school, Dalit kids are treated as equals.
Worldfocus | Martin Himmell | Posted 05.25.2011
For all the progress seen in India's transformation into a modern global economy, the country remains strongly tied to the traditions of its caste ...
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Posted 11.01.2011