On a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband's house and didn't stop running until she reached her parent's doorstep in Nepal's remote northwest. Her escape ...
As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...
Nepal, June 8 -- On June 4, I visited the Gurkha village of Dhampus in the Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality, close to the ...
A group of school children from the Dalit community in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu were restricted from walking through a mud lane by an upper caste elderly women, who hurled casties slurs at ...
In much of South Asia, race has become coterminous with caste in the definition and exclusion of distinct population groups distinguished by their descent. Despite formal protections in law, ...