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Upper-caste actor playing Dalit politician Mayawati shown dishevelled and holding broom in publicity for new filmA picture of a woman holding a broom. Anywhere else, the image might pass unnoticed. But in India the poster for the film Madam Chief Minis…
Read MoreMillions of people in Maharashtra to have neighbourhoods renamed but critics say plan means little without behavioural changeThe names of neighbourhoods in the Indian state of Maharashtra based on the caste of people who have traditionally lived there …
Read MoreFather Stan Swamy, who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates, is far from a violent MaoistA frail, ailing 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, has become the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. He is incarcerated…
Read MoreThe Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict – and call out everything from corruption to violence against womenWhen Isaivani starts singing the “beef song” with happy abandon it is nearly 10pm. The audience…
Read MoreCommittee set up to investigate deaths of young men allegedly chased into river as a result of ‘caste-based discrimination’The Nepalese government has established an independent high-level committee to investigate the killings of six young men, includi…
Read MoreJournalists, intellectuals and dissidents are being threatened by Modi’s governmentAs a lethal virus scorches its way across continents, the leftwing Indian rights campaigner Gautam Navlakha has been reminding us of the words of Leonard Cohen, urging …
Read MoreRaised to hide her low caste, Yashica Dutt’s new book traces her realisation that her history is one of oppression, not shamePretending not to be a Dalit took a heavy toll on the young Yashica Dutt.Her mother, Shashi, was so determined to protect her t…
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