A recent British survey reveals alarming rates of healthcare-related harm, highlighting the disparities in patient responses.

The world will never be completely equal. And maybe it shouldn’t be — let me explain. Egalitarianism, the idea of equality ...

India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...

Caste, a social structure in India, is now central to politics. Parties analyze caste composition before candidate selection.

The sociological theories on cultural taste popularized by French thinker Pierre Bourdieu over 45 years ago have reached a ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

The United National Congress’ (UNC) overwhel­ming victory last Monday was nothing short of spectacular. One of my colleagues ...

For the first time in India, the government will have concrete data castes and sub-castes within the Muslim community which ...

It is also troubling that, as in any competition, there must be losers by which to ascertain success. A system based to any degree on the fear and realization of humiliation to motivate learning fails ...

Sridhar Vembu recently critiqued the societal impact of relentless economic rivalry, highlighting its role in diminishing ...

This is a beautiful piece,” says Andrea Fraser, an artist with conflicted feelings about luxury goods and art markets. “A ...