India singer turns caste slur on its ear In hit song, she embraces word, calls for end of ancient segregating system by Rama Lakshmi The Washington Post | October 9, 2016 at 4:08 a.m. | Updated ...

Less than a fortnight ago, on March 20, the administration deployed police forces to ensure the Chamar caste members’ entry into the local Shiva temple, from which they had been prohibited so far.

The courts in many cases have ruled that hurling of abuse by taking the name of one's caste would not be an offence under ...

Ginni Mahi, a 17-year-old pop singer from India's northern state of Punjab, emerged this summer as a youthful advocate for the rights of the "lower" Chamar caste and her music and message is ...

Prada fiasco, lies a deeper, more uncomfortable truth: the issue isn’t just about what is being borrowed, but who gets to ...

Chamar is a Dalit community classified under the Scheduled Caste category. The name of the community was used as slur for Ram when he was unveiling a statue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister ...

It is unfortunate and ironic that even as modernisation is bringing people together and demolishing the birth-based barriers between them, politics is exacerbating such divisions—and even creating ...

Sudheer Rajbhar's radical concept of establishing Chamar Studio, a designer boutique, is unique. The Dalit community's ability as craftsmen is coming to the fore ...

Former Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar, has opened up on the caste-based discrimination that she and her father, a former union minister, were subjected to despite holding top posts. Kumar told ...

A trainee pilot with IndiGo airlines has accused three colleagues of caste abuse at the workplace, alleging they called him derogatory slurs such as "chamar" and "bhangi" and told him he did not ...

A shoemaker of the Chamar caste, all of his devotional songs were preserved included in the Sikh holy book, the Adi Granth, by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev.