Tolerating Violence, Way Of Life For Musahar Women

The term Musahar, literally translates as rat eaters. The community that bears that name in the eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh, bordering Bihar, comprises mostly landless agricultural workers. The 700,000 Musahars in Uttar Pradesh occupy not ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram have declared the Maoist rebels to be the biggest internal security threat to India and a hindrance to development. The mainstream media seem to have taken them at their face value.

Stefan Gates travels to one of the poorest and most corrupt areas of India, Bihar, where the rural Dalits are locked in a system of poverty and disadvantage. There he engages with one of the lowest sub-sections of the Dalits, the Musahars, or "rat ...

Gaya, Bihar: At every public platform, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his administration have flaunted economic data to show how effective policies and governance have created a resurgent Bihar.But how do these claims translate on the ground, ...

Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday said that the literacy rate among the scheduled caste (SC) in the state is far below the national average, requiring special drive and creation of special opportunities for them in the education sector. Modi said the ...