Upper caste parents in Odisha's Kendrapara district have withheld their children's attendance from an Anganwadi Centre due to the appointment of a 'dalit' woman, Sharmistha Sethy, as a helper. The ...

Villagers in Odisha boycott anganwadi services after the appointment of a Dalit employee, impacting children's pre-school ...

Upper caste parents of children enrolled in an Anganwadi Centre in Odisha’s Kendrapara district have stopped sending their wards to the pre-learning centre for nearly three months following the ...

Kendrapada: In a stark reminder of prevailing caste prejudice in rural Odisha, parents have stopped sending their children to an anganwadi centre after an educated dalit girl was appointed as ...

A Dalit youth named Rahul was brutally assaulted and lost vision in one eye after an argument over defecating near a canal. The attacker, Shankar Bind, allegedly used caste-based slurs and pierced a ...

In this modern Indian society, where people sit as a set of opinions and thought processes in a café over coffee, distressed ...

Durga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste discrimination in Nepal’s culturally conservative far-west, and had thought educated ...

During the month of April, millions of Ambedkarites and caste-abolition allies celebrate Dalit History Month. Launched in 2015 by a collective of Dalit feminists, including Thenmozhi Soundararajan and ...