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Christianity’s advent in India is a hotly debated topic. But the widely held – and disputed – belief is that it started with the arrival of St Thomas the Apostle …

I heard a radio programme the other day on intergenerational trauma. It spoke about how historic violence may remain within families, communities and institutions long after the original incidents. Elsewhere …

Caste minds have constructed worlds and cultivated cultures that are inherently anti-joy and actively anti-Dalit. This is our crooked room. And this is precisely why even the most mellowed expressions …

The enduring injustice of property dispossession and the failure to ensure effective restitution more than five decades after independence, call into question Bangladesh’s commitment to human rights and the credibility …

Christina Dhanuja’s Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life opens with Ambedkar’s piercing question, not whether a community lives or dies, but on what plane it lives. That question does not function …

A Dalit died in police custody. The state’s response is inadequate One of the prominent news headlines in recent days has been the suspected custodial death of a young Dalit …

Observed in April, Dalit History Month highlights the struggles, resilience, and contributions of Dalit communities. These authors have used literature as a tool of resistance, identity, and social change—offering perspectives …

Dalit women working as manual scavengers or housemaids in Delhi face severe menstrual discrimination from their employers and within their own families, with some workers seeing their wages cut and …

The Pamba river moves as its many droplets touch the lands they pass. It doesn’t stop. As the river completes its journey, it carries some from one bank to the …