Over the past decade, the new normal has been an increasing decline in standards of judicial independence and integrity. As ...

With Dalit Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai retiring, India's top court will be down to one Dalit and one woman— with ...

Research into judgements from 1950 to 2025 suggests India's top court often reinforces caste hierarchies in language, even ...

Today, Periyar’s legacy continues to influence Tamil Nadu’s social landscape, driving higher female enrollment in education, ...

Six individuals were sentenced to two-year imprisonment by a special court for preventing a Dalit woman from cooking at a ...

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NEW DELHI, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s ...

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 ...

Clergy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church process at the start of Mass in a suburb of New Delhi, India. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – As bishops around the world meet at the ...

KHAMGAON, India – Pork rinds. Dried squirrel. Spicy fish eggs. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada is part anthology, part cookbook and part rebuke to readers, who may presume Indian food is largely ...

A groundbreaking US survey revealed widespread caste discrimination among Dalits, challenging the notion that it's confined ...