Indigenous, Madhesi, Dalit, Disable and Women in Nepal

This document deals with the detail areas, issues and contemporary context of the indigenous, Madhesi, Dalit, disable and women in Nepal.  It is named as “Status, upliftment efforts, problems, solutions and potentialities of   Indigenous, Madhesi, Dalit,...

No more Kandhamals!

Photo credit: Deepak Srinivasan, Maraa In August 2008, one of the worst communal genocide attempts on the Christian community occurred in Orissa's Kandhamal district, among India's poorest places. Over 100 people including women, differently-abled, children,...

Indian Temple Brands Dalits " Untouchables", Bars Entry

In what is one of the ugliest practices in  Indian society, temples in a village in India's Haryana state bars people of Dalit communities from entering and worship. A local community reporter Amit Kumar, a...

Outcast enter Tamilnadu temple first time in 100 yrs:India

We say we are humans, but we exclude some group from this 'WE' and teat them as inhumans. This is reflected in the treatment these so called Dalit (outcast) get when they try to enter temple. They are treated unequal in the house of God. But there is agood news from...

Naxal Terror Rips Bihar Again: 16 Murdered

Update added after original postView Larger Map Naxalites have struck again. This time killing 16 people including seven children all in the age group of 10-15 years. The incident occurred in Amosi Bahiar...

Mayawati’s Idolization and quest for Dalit Emancipation

SR Darapuri During the Assembly elections 2007, the people of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) India and especially the Dalits voted Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to absolute majority. They expected that this time with a stable government she will be able to take U.P. out of the...

Meira Kumar Elected First Woman Speaker in India's Parliament

Meira Kumar has been elected the first female Speaker in India's parliament. Her nomination is momentous for women in India as well as for those of the Dalit class, historically known as the "untouchables" and the lowest level in India's traditional caste system. "Kumar, 64,...

Dalit "Witches" Face Extreme Violence in Nepal's Villages

April 3, 2009, Pyutar, Nepal: Advocates for the Dalit in Nepal are calling for government action to stop attacks against lower-caste women accused of witchcraft, following the brutal beating of a 45-year-old woman...

Childless Indian couples demand to know 'caste' of sperm donors

A gynaecologist who runs a sperm bank in Frozen Cell, in Patna, Bihar says that ten percent of his clients demand to know the caste of the sperm donor. Another gynaecologist in Delhi says that clients not only ask about the caste of the donor but also the religion, IQ and...

Inter-Caste Marriages in Nepal Face Violence and Intimidation

February 12, 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal: A shocking new report from the Jagaran Media Center (JMC) in Nepal finds that Nepalis who marry outside their caste risk social exclusion and even violence, particularly from...

Dalit beaten to half-death for asserting basic freedom

Bhairab Pant and his youngest son Yekdesh Pant of Matatirtha village ward no. 5 in Kathmandu district on December 18 assaulted Krishna Nepali of the same village. Victim Krishna Nepali has been admitted to the Kathmandu Medical College (KMC) Teaching Hospital at Sinamangal....

Sonia Gandhi calls to end anti-Christian violence

Sonia Gandhi on Saturday gave a call to end the menace and warned against those trying to take political mileage out of it by dividing the society."There are some people who are using the terror incidents to...

Your God or mine? Orissa burning

"Not many Indians would have known where Kandhamal is on the country's map or even that it is a part of the state of Orissa. But Kandhamal is burning and the world has sat up to take note.For nearly two weeks,...

India's low-caste leader eyes prime minister's job

A Bahujan Samaj Party member and Uttar Pradesh top official, low cast Mayawati, shows her intention to run for the Prime Minister post in India. " India's low-caste leader eyes prime minister's...

Some Remarks on Cooperative Federal Structure

I happened to go through the paper “Cooperative Federal Structure – A Workable Political-economy Approach for a New Nepal” prepared by Dr. Alok K Bohara for submission to the members of the Constituent Assembly of Federal Republic of Nepal.   The paper opens up...

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