In India, rapists are more likely to attack women and girls from the Dalit community than from other groups. DW correspondent Shalu Yadav met a victim who was raped by an upper-caste man when she was ...

In rural Tamil Nadu, an initiative of Dalit women are turning wasteland into not just crops, but a movement against social exclusion in India. In Tamil Nadu’s Pallur village, a stunning change is ...

Yashica Dutt holding her memoir, Coming Out as Dalit (image courtesy Yashica Dutt) There is much to laud in the Amazon Prime series Made in Heaven, currently amongst the most widely watched programs ...

In this photograph taken on May 5, Indian relatives mourn following the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl just days earlier in Chatra district of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. Police ...

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 ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

Screenshot of a video that shows a Hindutva goon attacking the house of a Christian, Dec. 22, 2025. Credit: X/Voice of Indian Minorities On Christmas Day this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India’s most marginalized communities, was allegedly sexually abused by one of her neighbors in the village where she ...