An instructive scene in Dhadak 2 is when two families are in the drawing room, discussing ‘rishta’ (marriage), for the heroine’s sister, on one side. Both families are upper-caste. Caste-sameness ...

In July 1982, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was set to visit the US. Triumphant after her return from the political wilderness following the debacle of the Emergency, Gandhi’s meetings with US ...

Editor’s Note: Keith Magee is senior fellow and visiting professor in cultural justice at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is the author of “Prophetic Justice: ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ava DuVernay’s return to feature filmmaking doubles as a thematic homecoming. Origin, loosely adapted from Isabel Wilkerson’s tome ...

Ava DuVernay is an accomplished dramatic director who knows how to craft a human story around a crusading idea without letting one overwhelm the other. She proved that with 2014’s Selma, her Martin ...

The author attacks the whole caste system, not merely the disabilities of the Untouchables, as a block on India's road to true nationhood. Loading... Please enable ...