When the earliest form of caste was created in ancient India, it had roots in religion. In the 21st century, it lives on as a ...

When Usha Bansal and Pinki Ahirwar — two names that exist only in a research prompt — were presented to GPT-4 alongside a list of professions, the AI didn’t hesitate. “Scientist, dentist, and ...

The talent market for lawyers remains tighter than that for staff, but managers acknowledge the risks to "morale" from unequal expectations for office attendance. When law firms adopted remote work ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

In October 2024, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), India’s largest sanitation project to make the country “open defecation-free,” turned ten. The project constructed over 100 million toilets and launched ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Despite caste-based discrimination being outlawed by Article 15 of the Indian constitution, caste continues to play a pervasive and insidious role in today’s society. Anthropologist Louis Dumont ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...