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. ...
Residents of Bajura's Muktikot village prepare to head to India for work after failing to find jobs at home. Photo: DHANU BISHWAKARMA "I shut down my poultry farm as the villagers did not buy fresh ...
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 ...
The Mala community had played a key role in the Congress party’s victory and urged newly elected sarpanches and ward members ...
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From short circuit to political signal: Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati and the battle for Dalit votes
The 2024 general election results indicated that a section of the Dalit population in Uttar Pradesh has begun drifting away ...
For more than 4,000 years, the Dalits of India were called “the untouchables,” the lowest of the low. The Dalits are at the bottom of the Indian caste hierarchy and are currently the oldest surviving ...
“I always take pride in calling myself a Dalit,” declares Atul Francis Sarker, a Catholic and executive director of Caritas Bangladesh, the Church’s social service agency and one of the country’s ...
Flood impacted Dalit house in Rajapur, Bardiya, in 2010. Last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) warned that this year's monsoon might cause even more ...
The streets of Chennai, formerly Madras, India's fourth largest city, are jammed with bikes, buses, trucks and cars, all careening in and out and around each other, honking incessantly and largely to ...
Christian leaders in New Delhi see both damage and opportunity in the wake of a historic rally against India’s oppressive caste system. At the November event, 50,000 Dalits (once known as ...
Members of India’s lowest Dalit caste are fighting against discrimination by posting “mustache selfies” on social media. The posts are in response to a string of violent incidents in which Dalits in ...
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