FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

Polamma carefully descends the 250 steps from the hilltop slum where she lives in southern India to walk one kilometer to the nearest grocery store. She is nine months pregnant and has four children ...

MUMBAI, India (RNS) Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western state of Gujarat. ...

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 suicide of a Dalit PhD student at Hyderabad Central University in mid January has shone a nasty spotlight on the social and economic exclusion still produced by India’s caste system. Rohith Vemula ...

To mark India’s 70th year of independence on August 15 2016, the prime minister addressed the nation from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort. Amid much pomp, his upbeat speech on the state of the nation ...

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 ...

Charting the Future of the Indonesian Military’s Involvement in Counterterrorism The relatively recent news of a PhD student Rohith Vemula committing suicide has galvanized protests across India. Of ...

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The streets of Chennai, formerly Madras, India's fourth largest city, are jammed with bikes, buses, trucks and cars, all careening in and out and around each other, honking incessantly and largely to ...