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Members of India's lowest Dalit caste are fighting against discrimination by posting "mustache selfies" on social media. The posts are in response to a string of violent incidents in which Dalits in ...

For three days, IIT Delhi hosted an academic conference on caste and race. It was meant to remain what most such events are: ...

A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest Dalit caste has been elected as the country's 14th president. A relatively unknown political operator and member of India's lowest ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

The book edited and translated by Nikhil Pandhi, ‘Love in the Times of Caste’, was launched at Delhi’s Gulmohar Club. It ...

Ten years after Rohith Vemula’s death, not much has changed. And nothing significant will change until and unless society and ...