Nagpur- With just weeks to go for the historic Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din, the prestigious Ambedkar family has issued an urgent appeal to the Nagpur district administration, highlighting a crisis …
INDIA: Ambedkar Family Heirs Urge Nagpur Admin to Avert Crisis at Waterlogged Deekshabhoomi Before ‘Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din’ Read More
In Tamil Nadu’s Pallur village, a stunning change is underway. A group of Dalit women—historically marginalized and landless—are transforming barren land into thriving farms. Led by community organizer Shakila Kalaiselvan, …
INDIA: Dalit women in India fight caste discrimination with farming Read More
Dalit women continue to experience systematic exclusion from decision-making roles at all levels of government, despite the constitutional guarantee of inclusion. Although the constitution guarantees their economic, social and political …
NEPAL: Enhance Dalit Women’s Roles In Public Life Read More
A young recruiter in Bengaluru told me that the algorithm doesn’t discriminate. “It just looks at data.” I wanted to believe him. As a content and brand marketer who’s embraced …
INDIA: AI is learning caste bias in India. Who will audit it for discriminations? Read More
The small Dalit settlement of Bahadurpur, which lies around 500 metres to the southwest of Katahariya Bazar in Rautahat district, has been shrouded in grief for over a week. On …
Dalit man brutally beaten over false theft charge dies days later Read More
MY GRANDMOTHER died over a decade ago. Every now and then, I am reminded of the tales she used to tell me when I was a child. Many were from the …
My “Namasudra Brahmin” family’s quest for caste dignity in Bangladesh Read More
Dalits (so-called “outcastes”) who convert to Christianity or Islam will lose the privileges and prerogatives granted by law to the “scheduled castes,” the official definition of various historically disadvantaged social …
INDIA: Christian and Muslim Dalits excluded from benefits granted by the state of Maharashtra Read More Dalit women continue to experience systematic exclusion from decision-making roles at all levels of government, despite the constitutional guarantee of inclusion. Although the constitution guarantees their economic, social and political …
NEPAL. Enhance Dalit Women’s Roles In Public Life Read More
The Dalit rights activists and political leaders have urged the government to bring an integrated law relating to Dalit rights. The law should be brought to enforce the fundamental right …
NEPAL: ‘Bring integrated law on Dalit’s rights’ Read More
Mx. Yashika’s story begins not with triumph, but with a tremor. One that cuts through the tattered jacket of solidarity in India’s trans rights movement. A Dalit trans scholar from …
INDIA: What Happens When The Margins Are Marginalised? Mx. Yashika, Caste, And The Crisis Within India’s Trans Movement Read More
