カテゴリー: Dalits
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city …
On his 4,000-mile march across the country, congressman tells voters to wake up to the vast gulf between them and the richHis voice hoarse from all the speeches he had made during his 4,000-mile march across the breadth of India, Rahul Gandhi urged peo…
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is revered as a founder of modern India and for his work fighting the caste system. A new documentary looks at his lasting popularityThere may only be a few people outside the subcontinent who have heard of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar…
Being denied water as a child set Sarswati Nepali on a path to end caste-based discrimination. She has since been honoured by the US government and become an inspiration to womenDashing home to get a drink of water during school breaks was Sarswati Nep…
Once the butt of others’ standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with humour as their weaponOn a wooden chair on a makeshift stage at Cat Café Studio, standup comedian Manaal Patil is holding forth to an appreciat…
Muslim reporter Siddique Kappan had been charged under draconian anti-terrorism lawsIndian journalist Siddique Kappan, who was held in jail for two years without trial, has walked free after being granted bail in a case human rights groups alleged was …
Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh A journalist who has been in jail for nearly two years for trying to meet the family of a young Dalit woman allegedly gang-raped in Hathras …
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any gains madeSitting in my second-year law class as Roe v Wade was overturned, I watched young women hail India’s abortion legislation. My heart…
Jeyasre Kathiravel’s death exposed the epidemic of violence facing workers making clothes for the UK high street. Will a groundbreaking agreement improve their lot?Photographs by Sivaram VJeyasre Kathiravel had always dreamed of a life beyond the garme…
In the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-makerAfter she took up film-making, Belmaya Nepali had to face disapproval from her husband and her highly patriarchal village in Nepal; but this was only…
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rightsAt the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a U…
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energyA woman explains how a group of four men repeatedly broke into her house and raped her; six times so far….
At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free educationPriyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the pro…
Concealing candidates’ surnames in the ultra-competitive civil service exam would help to overcome caste prejudice, report urgesThe exam is considered to be the country’s toughest – about a million people sit it every year vying for only a thousand or …