India's fearless 'untouchable' paper

Recently I came across this heart warming story of a sixty-something Dalit from Dumka in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand who has published a newspaper every week without fail for the past 21 years, highlighting discrimination against the poor and local corruption.

Mr Rajak's four-page, handwritten Hindi-news Din Dalit is photocopied 100 times and sold to subscribers or pasted onto Dumka's main traffic lights, bus stands and roads.

Din Dalit is not just another small town news sheet - the newspaper is registered with India's Registrar of Newspapers.


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