The young victim is a Dalit, the lowest rung in the rigid Hindu caste system, who are disproportionately targeted for sexual violence in a country with high rates of crime against women.

The panellists were speaking at a session titled 'The City Through Her Eyes: Voices on Sexual Harassment in India' on Saturday. The session was set around the findings of a survey conducted on women's ...

In the 14 years since Indian officials last held a census, the country has seen rapid growth, with India overtaking China as the world’s most populous nation, with 1.44 billion people, according to ...

Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

Park described the “racial caste” in America as a closed system that prevented social mobility ... Colonial powers, through their domination of large parts of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the ...

Let us unite for national revival” Following is the message from President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sri Lanka’s 77th Independence Day: “Today, ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

Dissanayake’s speech paying glowing tribute to sham independence and demanding that class interests of workers and the ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...