A Dalit woman panchayat president has claimed that she was not allowed to hoist the tricolour on Republic Day this year since she comes from a socially backward community.

Elections in India, one of the world’s most populous countries, evoke images like a social gathering or  a fun fair, in part due to the overwhelming numbers that participate in the process. In this country of over a billion people, 714 million voters will decide who heads the world’s largest democracy for the next five […]

The recipient of the 2014 United Nations Youth Courage Awards ceremony is a 19 year old, Indian girl, Shweta Katti, who comes from a red-light area in Mumbai. Winning a scholarship at Bard College in the US, with the help of an NGO, ‘Kranti’ that assists the daughters of sex-workers; Shweta went to the US to study last year, […]