Category Caste Discrminination
A Joint Civil Society* Contribution to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for the adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting on India has regretted that despite the abolition of untouchability enshrined in the Indian… Continue Reading →
But not for long September 2, 2021 Telangana’s project shows that caste census can benefit Dalits and OBCs. But parties like BJP and Congress are too busy with their Dwija networks. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD The demand for caste census is… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 SUNIL KASHYAP Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yadavendra Pratap Singh has been accused of harassing and brutally assaulting Dalit reporter Santosh Kumar, breaking his legs and threatening the journalist and his family with murder. Santosh works… Continue Reading →
Posted On August 29, 2021 In another blow on academic freedom, the Oversight Committee of the Delhi University removed two dalit authors — Bama and Sukirtharani — from the English syllabus. The Committee also decided to remove author Mahashweta Devi’s… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON AUGUST 27, 2021 Kavitha Muralidharan Chennai: Sukirtharani distinctly remembers the two years she had spent undergoing teacher’s training at her hometown, Ranipet in Tamil Nadu. “Every single day of those two years, I encountered them. I have watched… Continue Reading →
Women engaged in manual scavenging continue to face systemic discrimination and are denied access to alternative livelihoods. Concerted efforts must be taken to rehabilitate them. by SHARANYA MENON Manual scavenging is a caste-based profession that leads to discrimination and atrocities against… Continue Reading →
The social sector typically uses art for awareness and behaviour change. Going against the grain, a Marathi comedy show emerges with some valuable lessons. by SEEMA NAIR Art and activism have always been closely linked. Think of Kabir and his dohe, Basavanna and… Continue Reading →
Dalit scholar Dr. Gail Omvedt | Twitter/@dayakamPRAdvertisement Scholar extraordinary & the co-founder of Ambedkar Studies, #GailOmvedt is no more. Gail dedicated her life to bringing forward the subaltern history by revolutinising the Phule – Ambedkarite scholarship to a greater heights… Continue Reading →
Representational Image. Image Courtesy: Social Media India must reassess school textbooks so that the country stops perpetuating old hierarchies through the education system. The first-of-a-kind study of textbooks taught in the government schools in Odisha has discovered a strong bias against the… Continue Reading →
August, 19th, 2021 | Caste is reality of our inhuman society still today and it is deliberately protected by the institutions, a matter of caste atrocity came on 16.08.2021 at Laxmi Bai College of Delhi University where a Schedule Caste… Continue Reading →