https://www.scmp.com/rss/515926/feed Asma Hafiz is an independent journalist based out of India. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Memory, author Yogesh Maitreya writes, is the only thing that cannot be taken from Dalits, Indian’s at the bottom of the hierarchical social structure born into a lifetime of discrimination. Caste-society otherwise “has the heinous power to make a Dalit forget who they … are because they are made to hate themselves”, he says in his new memoir, Water in a Broken Pot. The book is among a small, but growing canon of modern Dalit literature, many published independently by small houses in defiance... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3249877/indias-publishing-world-has-hardly-any-diversity-dalit-writers-are-changing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3249877/indias-publishing-world-has-hardly-any-diversity-dalit-writers-are-changing?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jan 2024 04:00:13 +0000 Just after dawn each Sunday, Sukla Debnath packs a small bag with beauty products and visits India’s West Bengal tea plantations to train young women, most of them indigenous people – known as Adivasi – in make-up, hair and nails. It is a three-month course, delivered for free by 35-year-old Sukla on the only day the tea pickers have off work, in a region where their tribal status leaves them among the poorest people in India. The training provides them with a new income stream, especially... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3224389/indias-tea-pickers-fend-sex-traffickers-retraining-beauticians?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3224389/indias-tea-pickers-fend-sex-traffickers-retraining-beauticians?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:00:19 +0000