Out of the two leads in Dhadak 2, Neelesh (Siddhant Chaturvedi) is depicted as a Dalit man, with his love interest Vidhi (Triptii Dimri) as someone from an upper caste. The story revolves around ...

For decades, Bollywood's protagonists paraded surnames that echoed dominance—Malhotra, Sharma, Singh, Verma—rarely reflecting ...

Sexual violence and rape against Dalit women and girls have been brought into sharp focus, once again, after a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the Indian capital last month.

A character in an episode of the popular Amazon Prime drama bears several similarities to Yashica Dutt, the Dalit author and activist. Dutt says her story was used without permission — and is ...

We see cases where Dalit women are killed, raped, and tortured daily. … Only a few come to the limelight." There are 200 million Dalits in India, out of a population of 1.3 billion, according to ...

There's a simple reason for that, says author Shahu Patole, a 62-year-old retired civil servant and a Dalit. "To upper-caste Hindus," Patole says, "we were not even humans.