Caste in America

Caste has affected my life in all of the tech jobs I have had, including now at Amazon. Once, at another … More

Can Women Recite the Vedas?

Similarly, a believer in ‘women should not recite Vedas’ usually also believes in ‘Sudras and untouchables should not enter the … More

Who is a Kafir?

“It [Kafir] has nothing to do with the absence of belief in the Islamic doctrine of divinity and prophecy. No … More

Gender Equality

“…the feminist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock’s suggestion [was] that most members of what are called egalitarian societies seem less interested in … More

Egalitarianism

The Oxford social anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard published his classic ethnography of the Sudanese Nuer community (who were held out … More