The news of the attacks in Mumbai eerily took me back to a quiet morning two years ago when I sat in Room 721 of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel, reading the morning newspaper, fearing just the ...

Flood victims are rescued Monday from their marooned villages near Madhepura, 12.5 miles northeast of Patna, India. Indian authorities rushed doctors and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

Harold R. Isaacs, India's Ex-Untouchables. New York; John Day Company, 1965, $4.50. Under the laws of India, Untouchability no longer exists; it went out en self-government came in with the adoption ...

Tammy Hotsenpiller, while teaching a Pilates class at her church in Yorba Linda, inspired her students to a higher cause. She was leading a class of stretching and low impact exercises when she ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mumbai, India – About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony ...

N E W   D E L H I, Feb. 29 -- Every day at dawn, Girdari Lal takes to the streets to sweep the filth and human waste from the clogged gutters of the Indian capital. It is not just his job. It is ...

Asra Q. Nomani is the author of "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam." The news of the attacks in Mumbai eerily took me back to a quiet morning two years ago when I sat ...

TRIVENIGANJ, India – In the two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters. India’s “untouchables” are the last to be rescued — if ...