KATHMANDU: Nepali Parkour athlete Dinesh Sunar has set world records for the 19th time with the most backward blindfolded somersault on May 4.  Born to a poor family in Nepal’s remote Khotang district, Sunar performed 13 flips in just 30 seconds at the annual cultural function hosted by DC events at the premises of the University of District of Columbia, Washington DC.

Amnesty International has published a new Nepal-based report on descent-based discrimination against Dalits in Nepal amid a program in Kathmandu today.   The report titled “No One Cares”: Descent-Based Discrimination against Dalits documents the experience of systemic caste-based discrimination in Nepal and the challenges they face in accessing justice as the Nepali authorities’ existing legal and protective measures prove insufficient and fail to secure their human rights.

The dream of Baba Saheb Ambedkar that someday a Dalit will become the Prime Minister of India under the republican Constitution he framed for the country is long overdue. Long before this decade of 21st century, India should have been a mature enough democracy to realize that dream, which hasn’t been yet. Along with a Dalit leader becoming the Prime Minister, there would have been a long list of economic and social reforms that would naturally ensue.