Snapshots from a settlement of the Musahars- a low caste in India's social hierarchy- who besides living in extreme poverty, face another significant challenge: caste-based discrimination in schools.

Saptari, April 7 -- year-old Bishal Sada from ward 1 of Goraiya of Surunga Municipality, in Saptari district, has been deprived of medical treatment due to his family's financial hardship.

Rats for dinner?! Dive into the raw, real, and rarely-seen world of Nepal’s Musahar community — known as the “rat-eaters” — where survival meets tradition in the form of forbidden rat curry.

In her latest column, Tavleen Singh speaks on the Election Commission’s voter ID revision drive in Bihar, calling it ...

Nine-year-old Satish Sada of the Musahar settlement in Shambhunath Municipality in Saptari district did not go to school. Although the school nearby is at a distance of about 500 metres from his ...

Musahar voters say they had voted in the past believing that the candidates would keep their promises. However, this time around, they said they would vote for the candidate who would give a ...

The Musahar community is listed as Scheduled Caste in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura and West Bengal. As per Census 2011, the community's population in UP stood over 2.5 lakh, ...

The Sarkar Aapke Dwar programme started on the instructions of Chief Minister Hemant Soren is playing an important role in strengthening the link of connecting the people of the deprived society ...

Poverty, disease, starvation, and a severe lack of cleanliness have made life miserable for the Musahar community. During floods, snakes and scorpions are more feared than the miscreants here ...

Several men and women from Musahar and Kharwar scheduled tribe fraternities of east UP districts were given diksha (consecrated) with the name of Lord Ram in a function led by senior Rashtriya ...

Several men and women from Musahar and Kharwar scheduled tribe communities of east UP districts were given 'diksha' in the name of Lord Ram at a function led by senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ...