Dalit Ministers seek consensus on internal reservation ahead of Karnataka Cabinet meeting amid division among Scheduled ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

Every February, the United States observes Black History Month, a commemoration dedicated to remembering the struggles, ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, India – Dalit Catholics of the Kottapalayam village in the Kumbakonam Diocese of the India state of Tamil Nadu organised a hunger strike near the district collector’s office on July 21, ...

There are many definitions of history. But for me, as an artist, dreamer, and an unapologetic Ambedkarite, history has often been a crime scene — a place of distortion, manipulation, and theft. What ...

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara criticized the opposition for promoting the Dalit Chief Minister debate to distract from governance issues. He emphasized Congress's commitment to elevating a ...

We are all equal, no caste stratification here. (From Chandilini, an anthology of poems by Kalyani Thakur Charal) Speaking truth to power as only she can, Kalyani Thakur Charal, a 60-year-old Bengali ...

Clergy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church process at the start of Mass in a suburb of New Delhi, India. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – As bishops around the world meet at the ...

Shirahatti MLA Chandru Lamani, who has been arrested by the Lokayukta police in a bribery case, has been framed because he is an educated Dalit. The system is against educated Dalits,” BJP MLA Ramesh ...

To sheer mockery to the election manifesto, the NC had only five Dalit leaders in the dissolved HoR. Worryingly, no Dalit leader was allowed to be a minister either. Elimination of untouchability was ...