The Varna system wasn’t about birth—it was about function. It was a framework, not a fate. But like most things in history, what we know is often far from the reality.

Varna & caste are ingrained in the Indian psyche We all seem to be living with labels of different sorts, caste being the most prominent. People are divided and subdivided into castes and sub-castes.

Gotra tells about your lineage. Caste, religion, Gotra, Varna, all these things have been created by human beings, and each and everything was created for some special purpose, all these things ...

Now we have a neo-varna system: General Category (GC), Other Backward Communities (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Earlier everyone wanted to be the higher varna, the dvija ...

Discover Poykayil Appachan`s inspiring life, his defiance of caste and war, and his legacy in Kerala`s fight for social ...

The varna system initially served to classify individuals on the basis of their attributes and aptitude. However, with time, it evolved into the caste system where a person’s occupation and ...

Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], October 8 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said that everyone thinking in the interest of society should tell that the 'Varna ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said that everyone thinking in the interest of society should tell that the 'Varna' and 'Jaati' (caste) system is a thing of the past.