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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 ...

India’s Roman Catholic bishops have recently elected the country’s first Dalit cardinal to lead them. The symbolism is powerful. But can one man, in perhaps four years, dismantle the caste walls that ...

A few years ago, Dalit mental health was introduced into the social consciousness of the country. A correlation seemed to be ...

When Dutt was a kid, her family pretended to be rich so no one would suspect their caste identity. In her memoir, she talks of her struggles —... As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in ...