Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma issued an apology for aBhagavad Gita verse on his social media post. Opposition parties, including...

BSP chief Mayawati on Friday attacked the Samajwadi Party, saying it should not "insult" the marginalised sections of society by calling th...

"The pain caused by the insult and misbehaviour the British had meted out to Gandhiji on a train by saying 'Indians are dogs' was only felt...

India's focus currently is about being respected globally as a civilisation - source of knowledge, stemming from mysterious Vedas. This min...

In the hilly Nilgiris, Raja's parliamentary constituency, shops downed shutters in response to a call by the BJP and various Hindu outfits ...

DMK deputy general secretary A Raja stoked a controversy over his Shudra remark and drew BJP's ire with the saffron party accusing him of s...

Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday also clarified that she was just "paraphrasing" BR Ambedkar's views and questioned why an academic lecture wa...

As part of her delivery of the Dr B R Ambedkar Lecture Series titled 'Dr B R Ambedkar's Thoughts on Gender Justice: Decoding the Uniform Ci...

Attempts are being made to "impose Manu dharma through the imposition of Hindi," Elangovan said in his remarks, that have went viral, while...

Where do we locate contemporary service providers? By traditional classifications they are the shudras? Does the old varna system still hol...

In other controversial remarks, the Lok Sabha member from Bhopal cited dharmashastras (religious texts), claiming a 'shudra' (fourth and lo...

Those who clean sewage systems are kept at a distance, not given protective gear, not given cleaning materials to wash before they go home....

Krishna Gopal, the general secretary of the RSS, spoke against discrimination and caste terms.

This then is the Muslim state and it coheres to what Tharoor says may happen to us if the Hindutva project rumbles on: keeping Indians out ...

Feudal land-based economies of kshatriyas value Lakshmi as Bhu-devi (tangible land) while market-based economies of vaishyas value Lakshmi ...

An organisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Maharashtra will conduct a mass conversion of five lakh OBCs to Buddhism in 2016.

Manjhi on Wednesday questioned the "morality" of women whose husbands have been working outside the state after marriage for years.