MUMBAI: As the first phase of Census 2027 gathers pace, leaders of the Ambedkarite, or Dalit community, are divided over whether caste identities should be recorded during the second phase of the ...

KATHMANDU, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ever since the death of a young Dalit man killed along with five friends in what activists called a "caste-based massacre", Nepalis have been taking ...

Durga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste discrimination in Nepal’s culturally conservative far-west, and had thought educated ...

Rawat Ramnarayan, associate professor of history, has co-edited Dalit Journeys for Dignity (Orient Black Swan, 2025). The book focuses on the theme of Dalit struggles for dignity in India. It begins ...

Two years ago, Kanika Das was in a relationship with a boy from a rich Catholic family and they planned to get married. However, their dreams were left in tatters when the boy’s family opposed the ...

The bill, which was passed by the State Legislature this week, has led to intense debate among South Asian immigrants. By Amy Qin Reporting from Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area Ramesh Suman, ...

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society's caste-based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their ...