This undated photo shows a view of St Mary Magdalene Church located in Kottapalayam, Tamil Nadu state, India. Photo: OSV News/Mary Magdalene Church, Facebook. A burial controversy involving a Dalit man in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has brought the plight of the country’s Dalit population into sharp focus, with the local Catholic bishop involving civil authorities to resolve the dispute. Fr Devasagayaraj Zackarias, national secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward…
