AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Dosa vendor Sunil Gagnath Sabkale watches over a fragile Buddhist temple across the street from a market where he sells his crepelike pancakes. The temple consists of a small ...

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council, Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, demanded the immediate resignation of Minister Mahadevappa, accusing him of ...

MUMBAI, India (RNS) Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western state of Gujarat. ...

DEHRADUN: In a significant assertion of self-determination, the Dalit community of Bijnu Bijnad village in the remote Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand has broken a 150-year-old social convention by ...

SAN JOSE - The California Civil Rights Department has voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against two Cisco engineers, while still keeping alive its litigation against the ...

Mangaluru: Dalit community members demanded that all cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Tribes should be ...

A landmark book documenting the arts, artifacts and indigenous technologies of Nepal’s Dalit community was launched on Friday at the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) Hall, marking a major effort to reframe ...

Christian leaders have welcomed a demand by a southern Indian state government to confer Scheduled Caste (SC) status on Dalit Christians under India’s affirmative action policy. On Jan. 9, Andhra ...

During a press conference, AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bhaadwaj stated, "It is a very strange thing that on the birth anniversary of Mata Savitribai Phule, portraits of Pandit Atal Bihari ...

Musician Ginny Mahi. Most of Mahi’s songs are in praise of Dr Ambedkar, a champion of the Dalit cause. (all images courtesy of Ginny Mahi Photography) This article is part of a series of pieces ...

The Chief Minister said that a Dalit youth has been murdered in Bangladesh, but not a single word has come from the ...

NEWS BRIEF A low-caste Indian couple were hacked to death by a shopkeeper because of an unpaid loan of 15 rupees (about 22 cents). It is the latest incident of violence against the Dalit community, ...