There are many definitions of history. But for me, as an artist, dreamer, and an unapologetic Ambedkarite, history has often been a crime scene — a place of distortion, manipulation, and theft. What ...

We are all equal, no caste stratification here. (From Chandilini, an anthology of poems by Kalyani Thakur Charal) Speaking truth to power as only she can, Kalyani Thakur Charal, a 60-year-old Bengali ...

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 ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

Christians cutting across denominations protested in India’s national capital and a southern state, marking the 75 th year of denial of the state's quota benefits to Christians of Dalit origin. The ...