Word: castee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It's no coincidence that consumption is highest in the south of India, which has in recent years seen some of the fastest economic growth and the most thorough dispersion of wealth to villages and small cities. The southern state of Kerala, not far from Madras, is full of billboards...
Let that schooling begin here and now: high-caste persons are categorically not supposed to be vapid or unintelligent. And if they are those things, they keep them hidden. Scene makes a public spectacle of both traits. Its supposed finesse, rather like its pixels, blurs upon close inspection.
DIED. KOCHERIL RAMAN NARAYANAN, 85, diplomat who climbed from the depths of India's caste system to become President; in New Delhi. Born into a poor Dalit (once called "untouchable") family, Narayanan attended college in India and later earned a degree from the London School of Economics. In the foreign...
DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean.
One might expect Harvard to be embarrassed by such a former leader. But the man responsible for these undeniably, irrevocably hateful words and actions is still held in high honor by the University. The azure-domed House on Mt. Auburn Street bears his family name; a stately bust of Lowell...