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Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...
Residents of a Delhi slum fill buckets with water to clean mud from their huts after a monsoon rainfall in July. “Throughout human history,” Isabel Wilkerson writes, “three caste systems have stood ...
In 1946, the Indian social reformer Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, born into Hinduism’s “untouchable” caste, sent a letter across oceans to the African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. In writing about ...
Whenever Benjamin Kaila, a database administrator who immigrated from India to the United States in 1999, applies for a job at a U.S. tech company, he prays that there are no other Indians during the ...
When Norma L. Day-Vines, associate dean for faculty development at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, was charged with coming up with ways to engage faculty and staff in the issues of diversity ...
Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...