MUMBAI – A burial controversy involving a Dalit man in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has brought the plight of the ...

Nepal has banned caste discrimination, yet many Dalits still live in poverty. Can a formal state apology inspire change? As a child, Saraswati Nepali was not allowed to drink from the same water jar ...

New Delhi, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Sunday paid tribute to the founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kanshi Ram, on his birth anniversary, saying his tireless struggle for the ...

The old social order has not changed much in the village of Melauli. Nearly a third of the inhabitants of this hamlet, which lies some 40 km south of the headquarters of Baitadi district in Nepal's ...

Church leaders and Dalit rights activists in India say they are hopeful caste-based discrimination against Dalit Christians will gradually decline after a landmark burial in the southern state of ...