Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s debut feature “Writing With Fire,” the only Indian film in the Sundance world cinema documentary competition, shines a light on a unique, women-only news collective in ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South ...

For years, Indian Americans — particularly Hindus — have watched the narrative around caste in the US drift further away from lived reality and deeper into a caricature crafted by activist groups with ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And turning now to the United States, where our next guest says the death of Tyre Nichols is the latest tragedy to shine a light on the nation’s ...

The California state Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make discrimination on the basis of caste illegal in the state. Sen. Aisha Wahab’s bill, SB 403, flew through the Senate in a 34 ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination on Tuesday, after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. The move addresses ...

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump apparently thinks that the U.S. government should be a caste system, rather than a democracy — but that doesn’t mean he can explain how a caste system ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination in the state. The measure, which passed the California legislature last month, specified ...

California moved closer to becoming the first state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practice passed the California Assembly late on Monday. U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry ...