Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare
February 2024
‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi
On his 4,000-mile march across the country, congressman tells voters to wake up to the vast gulf between them and the rich
November 2023
From ‘untouchable’ to architect of India’s constitution: film tells story of Ambedkar
Documentary looks at lasting popularity of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, one of the founders of modern India, who championed the rights of Dalits
September 2023
‘I will fight until I die’: Nepal’s celebrated Dalit activist on her lifelong battle for equality
Being denied water as a child set Sarswati Nepali on a path to end caste-based discrimination. She has since been honoured by the US government and become an inspiration to women
February 2023
Who’s laughing now? The Dalit comedians punching up against India’s caste system
Indian journalist freed on bail after being jailed for two years without trial
September 2022
Jailed Indian journalist gets bail almost two years after arrest
Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh
August 2022
Feminists in India laud their abortion rights – but they don’t extend to Dalit women
Shreeja Rao
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community in effect excluded from any gains
May 2022
Rights and freedom
Murder, rape and abuse in Asia’s factories: the true price of fast fashion
Jeyasre Kathiravel’s murder exposed the epidemic of abuse facing garment workers. But will a groundbreaking new agreement improve their lot?
October 2021
I Am Belmaya review – uplifting story of a Nepali woman following her film-making dream
‘The heaven of film-making’: how a Dalit orphan got to tell her own story
September 2021
Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who ‘lived by her principles’ among India’s poor
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rights
July 2021
‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor
‘We can do anything’: the Indian girls’ movement fighting child marriage
March 2021
Caste aside: hide names to curb Dalit job bias in India, study says
Concealing candidates’ surnames in the ultra-competitive civil service exam would help to overcome caste prejudice, report urges
February 2021
If India can charge journalists with ‘sedition’ for doing their jobs, it has no free press
Hartosh Singh Bal
My colleagues reporting on alleged police violence at farmers’ protests have fallen foul of Modi’s government, says Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor at the Caravan magazine
January 2021
'Untouchable' Bollywood poster provokes outrage over caste stereotypes
Upper-caste actor playing Dalit politician Mayawati shown dishevelled and holding broom in publicity for new film
December 2020
Caste-based area names to be changed across Indian state to 'increase unity'
Millions of people in Maharashtra to have neighbourhoods renamed but critics say plan means little without behavioural change
October 2020
India's arrest of an 83-year-old priest on terrorism charges is an insult to justice
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Father Stan Swamy, who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates, is far from a violent Maoist, says the activist Mari Marcel Thekaekara
September 2020
'We will bring change': the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system
The Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict – and call out everything from corruption to violence against women
