On Tuesday, in his first speech as the LoP in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Udhayanidhi called for the "abolition" of Sanatana Dharma, claiming it divides people, repeating the controversial remarks he ...

China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse and a socialist state governed by a communist party, is being accused online of ...

DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin said that he had meant to abolish that system which divides people into upper and lower castes. Abolishing the caste system did not mean that people cannot go to the ...

Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often with streets or highways separating higher-income predominantly White neighborhoods from lower-income predominantly Black ones. This is not an accident of ...

The Anambra state government has declared Wednesday, December 28, as the set date for the abolition of the ‘Osu caste system’. The decision was made by major traditional rulers in the south-east. The ...

The Anambra Traditional Rulers Council, Chaired by the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, has pledged their support to efforts at eradicating the “Osu” caste system in the state. The traditional ...

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Twenty four traditional rulers in Oguta Local Government 8 of Imo have endorsed abolishing the Osu caste system, to free affected people from stigmatisation. The age-long system is also known in some ...

Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, ...