In village after village in the Malwa region, Dalit women have won the right to farm common land. They are now protesting and ...

Mumbai: Women's rights activist Varsha Deshpande, founder of the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal of India, has won the 2025 United ...

Talking about caste discrimination is not so common in a country like Nepal. Yet if the nation really wants to progress and ...

Kolhapur: Varsha Deshpande of Satara-based Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal, which works for the upliftment of socially backward women from rural India, has .

An ex-worker at Karnataka’s Dharmasthala temple says he was forced to bury hundreds of bodies, including children.

The #metoo campaign also excludes Dalit women who are often victims of attacks by upper-caste Hindus and security forces, said Sujatha Gidla, a Dalit writer whose recent memoir chronicles the ...

Office-bearers and activists of various organisations working for the welfare of the scheduled castes organised a protest ...

After first calling for dignity for the marginalized low-caste community, Mevani, 35, is now demanding land for landless Dalits and has threatened a wider protest from Oct. 1.

Indian women’s rights activist Varsha Deshpande awarded UN Population Award for gender equality and reproductive rights ...