Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life arrives at a moment when Dalit women continue to be simultaneously hypervisible (in death and violation) and invisible (in life). In newspapers, NGO brochures, …
INDIA: Angry yet hopeful Read More
Introduction The Bhakti Movement occupies an important place in the social and religious history of India. Emerging between the seventh and seventeenth centuries in different parts of the country, it …
INDIA: Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s Views on the Bhakti Movement and the Upliftment of Dalits Read More
In Makadum in Khandadevi Rural Municipality-6 of Ramechhap district, non-Dalit women have begun learning to play traditional musical instruments that, by long-standing social custom, have only ever been played by …
NEAL: In a Ramechhap village, non-Dalit women start learning instruments only Dalits played Read More
Over the last few years, the Indian film industry has been at a peculiar crossroads. While the box office continues to be dominated by the hyper-masculine, action-spectacle cinema of the ₹1,000-crore …
INDIA: Out of the margins: Dalit Bahujan in Indian cinema Read More
Each year in Pakistan, roughly 1,000 young girls — many of whom are Christians — are kidnapped from their homes. These girls are often found months later, after they’ve been …
PAKISTAN: Stolen Innocence: The Abduction and Forced Marriage of Christian Girls in Pakistan Read More
Today marks the historic day when Nepal was declared a nation free from caste-based discrimination and untouchability. On June 4, 2006, the then parliament declared Nepal a caste-based untouchability-free nation. …
NEPAL: Celebrating Eradication While Untouchability Still Endures Read More
Open any Punjabi playlist. The genre that produced Diljit Dosanjh, AP Dhillon, and Sidhu Moosewala — and now saturates every Bollywood party track and NRI wedding — is a billion-dollar global export. If you …
INDIA: The Caste Pride in Your Spotify Playlist Read More
Dalit leaders have said that evil practices like untouchability must end in practice. Participants in the ‘Problems Faced by Madhesi Dalit Community and the Role of Stakeholders for Solution’ inter-dialogue …
NEPAL: Dalit Leaders Demand End to Untouchability in Siraha Read More
Christian women from tribal and minority communities are increasingly visible at the top of South Asian soccer — and none more so than Maria Manda, a Catholic from Bangladeshʼs Garo …
INDIA: How Christian women are shaping South Asian soccer Read More
A fact-finding team of prominent rights activists and journalists has warned that constitutional guarantees of freedom of conscience, religious liberty and equal citizenship were facing unprecedented challenges in India. The …
INDIA: Anti-Christian violence ‘normalized, systemic’ in Indian states Read More
