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 ...

Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950.

Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies and financial services in Asia. Previously, he worked for Reuters, the Straits Times and Bloomberg News. For the first ...

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 ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - State Senator Aisha Wahab authored the bill vetoed, opens new tab by Governor Gavin Newsom that would have made California the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination ...

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 ...

Nirmal Singh, 42, has been on a hunger strike for 18 days. Only drinking liquids, he says he can’t run with his children anymore; even climbing stairs is hard. But as an Indian American who identifies ...

State Senator Aisha Wahab seen here with Mayor Todd Gloria introduced and authored the anti-caste discrimination bill. Photo via @aishabbwahab X California moved closer to becoming the first U.S.

Written and directed by the exceptionally talented Ava DuVernay, the film — a masterful adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” — unflinchingly ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed, opens new tab a bill passed recently by the state legislature to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing existing laws that ...