Utmost emphasis should be given to bringing left-behind communities, including dalit, hazrijan, and ethnic minorities, under the country's development process, together with their empowerment.

As time goes by, the contribution of the Gen Z movement does not amount to much. The only piece of good news is that somehow ...

Father Arul Valan, a Salesian priest who led a movement for the rights of a Dalit or former untouchable community in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has died at 54. Valan, who co-founded the ...

A Church delegation has urged a federal government-appointed panel to extend India’s affirmative action benefits to socially poor Dalit Christians, whose ancestors were considered untouchable in the ...

A sign at a Dec. 8, 2006, hunger sit-in by Christian Dalits in New Delhi, India, displays the deep roots of the caste system in India. Dalits are low castes who perform menial jobs and are treated as ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: Construction work of the mani mandapam (memorial hall) and installation of a statue of Dalit rights activist Immanuel Sekaran at Paramakudi is nearing completion, and they would be ...

Amnesty International on Thursday released Left Behind in the Storm, a report showing that Bangladesh is failing to ensure equal access to safe water and sanitation for Dalit women sanitation workers ...

What happens when the architect of a rebellion — someone who ought to be known to all — remains largely unknown? I realised ...