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Health
India's nursing workforce is overwhelmingly Dalit, overwhelmingly female, and almost entirely invisible in public recognition. Savita Hira Bodhi represents the hundreds of thousands of Dalit nurses who staff the hardest posts in India's health system - and who the system has systematically undervalued for generations.
Forgotten Heroes
In 1848, Savitribai Phule opened India's first school for girls in Pune and became the country's first female teacher. Her story of defying caste and gender oppression - walking through stones and mud to teach every day - is one of India's most important and least told histories.
Social Justice
Is caste really the root problem in modern India, or is it poverty, lack of education, and political exploitation? In cities, nobody asks your caste. With money and education, barriers dissolve. This opinion piece argues that India's caste narrative is sustained by politicians who profit from division and a media that amplifies victimhood over solutions.
Social Justice
Despite three laws and multiple Supreme Court orders banning manual scavenging, the practice persists across India, claiming over 1,300 lives since 1993 and trapping Dalit communities in a cycle of caste-based degradation that the state has failed to break.
