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
Hundreds of Christians in central India have been denied clean water, fresh produce and employment for nearly a month in unsuccessful attempts to force them to denounce Christianity, International Christian …
INDIA: Christians in India denied clean water, jobs, food in ongoing religious persecution Read More
For a month, Binda Maya BK has spent her days on the pavement at Maitighar Mandala in the Capital, demanding answers about the death of her 23-year-old son inside police …
NEPAL: Dalit youth held over child marriage dies in police custody. Mother demands, impartial investigation, action Read More
Police have arrested a man on the charge of physically assaulting a Dalit woman in Siraha. The arrested has been identified as Pabitra Narayan Yadav of Naraha rural municipality-3. Yadav …
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