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Posted On June 29, 2023 The vehicle used by the attackers of Dalit leader and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad have been recovered from a village here, police said on Thursday.A bullet grazed Aazads abdomen when unidentified assailants opened… Continue Reading →
Posted On June 23, 2023 Despite a ban on discrimination and quotas mandating Dalit inclusion in education and government, caste-based discrimination remains widespread in India Vijay Surwade may have worked as a bank manager by day – but for five… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON MARCH 6, 2022 Saharanpur Dalit girl rape: The victim claimed that her school senior raped her in a hotel and forced her to consume poison. Meerut: Despite claims of improved law and order in Uttar Pradesh, there seems… Continue Reading →
By Anand Teltumbde 15 June, 2014 Countercurrents.org If you recall, Khairlanji, as it was first reported in the media (on 30 September 2006) was a crime that happened out of outrage of simpleton villagers at the defiance of a woman… Continue Reading →
Saturday, 3 May 2014 – 5:39pm IST | Agency: DNA In December 1935, the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (society for the abolition of caste system) invited BR Ambedkar to deliver a speech. Ambedkar wrote the speech, titled it as ‘Annihilation of… Continue Reading →
Karthik Navayan This paper attempts to highlight the covert caste practices and discriminatory behaviour of the dominant caste personnel in the top hierarchy of ActionAid bureaucracy in its Indian chapter, wherein the dominant caste members from both Northern and Southern… Continue Reading →
By Mari Marcel Thekaekara , in http://newint.org/ Growing up in Kolkata brought me face to face with homeless, poverty stricken people from an early age. Kolkata’s streets make it impossible to be shielded from poverty unlike some major Indian… Continue Reading →
Sivakami travelled to foreign countries on government missions and brought back varied experiences By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Gulf News Image Credit: Courtesy: Sivakami Palanimuthu Sivakami, IAS officer and novelist New Delhi: The first Dalit (lower caste) woman to become… Continue Reading →
Parvesh Kumar Sharma, TNN Aug 19, 2012, (A minor issue of a dalit boy…) SADARPUR (PATIALA): A minor issue of a dalit boy dialling a cellphone number by mistake has snowballed into a major row and resulted in 50 dalit… Continue Reading →
Special Correspondent SALEM, July 23, 2012 Dalits and cadres of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) demolished a 60-foot-long brick wall under construction, alleging that it was intended to separate a Dalit colony from a caste Hindu area at… Continue Reading →