MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home town in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention ...

Nepal, July 21 -- What has the Balendra Shah-led government delivered to the traditionally suppressed and marginalised groups ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The victory of a Dalit activist in elections in India's Gujarat state is a boost to efforts to secure land for the lower caste community and free them from the ...

Veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has landed in controversy after making critical comments about government grants given to filmmakers from Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and women ...

KOTTAYAM: Dalit writer and thinker K K Kochu passed away on Thursday at the age of 76. He was under treatment for cancer at Government Medical College Hospital in Kottayam. A renowned social activist, ...

My community of Dalit women are doubly oppressed by caste and gender. Women in my community are the most vulnerable to sexual violence in India, for example. But to say that we are only limited by our ...

Curator Manu Kaur rooted the show, on view at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, in Dalit Guru Ravidas’s vision of a stateless, casteless, and classless society. “My family is Ravidassia, and I wanted ...

As per the new Constitution, 6,680 Dalit women will be elected in the current local polls — a significant achievement for this group, who have been discriminated against for decades. CPN-UML deputy ...

(FNJ/IFEX) – On 17 September 2006, journalists, a group of Dalits (untouchables), and human rights activists from an organization that advocates for the rights of Dalits were all attacked by a mob.