The foundation stone for the Bharat Ratna Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre, to be located in Lucknow's Aishbagh, is likely...

The Balagarh seat is reserved for scheduled castes and by fielding a popular Dalit icon from the seat, where the TMC trailed by 34,000 vote...

Rakesh Sinha is a widely read author who is the founder and honorary director of the think-tank "Indian Policy Foundation". Sinha is a regu...

The present upsurge of dalit anger will be disruptive and dislocate some nodes of control and patronage. But it will change India for the b...

What got jallikattu into national headlines was when a few thousand protesters arrived at Marina Beach in Chennai.

At the reform school, Kabali explains that he wears suits in summer too because he, of the underclass, wants to make a statement.

The assurance came after opposition parties in Rajya Sabha vociferously demanded rebuilding of the heritage building that was brought down ...

Thamizhachi considers atheism or irreligiousness as a feature of a social movement that fights caste inequality and subjugation of women.

The award-winning poet said he was disheartened to see authors taking back their awards only a week after the death of the Dalit scholar in...

Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "almost-a-week late" response on the suicide of Dalit sc...

Poet K Satchidanandan said the suicide by Rohit Velmula was not "accidental" and alleged "continued oppression" of Dalit students in variou...

Party sources said he told the MPs that Ambedkar was so far projected as a Dalit icon but his government had worked to highlight various ot...

Historian Ramachandra Guha, who came forward to support the BLF, says that in today's day and age, politics and ideologies are inescapable

These writers are also re-scripting the conceptions of Indian society and history while challenging prevailing literary conventions.

Jaipur Police today issued a notice to sociologist Ashis Nandy asking him to appear before it in connection with his controversial remarks.

Strongly condemning the controversial remarks made by sociologist Ashish Nandy over SC and ST communities, BJP Anusuchit(SC) Jaati Morcha t...

Nobody seems to be disturbed by the fact that so far no Indian writer has been considered worthy of Bharat Ratna, country's highest civilia...