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Ramchandra Guha – Adivasis are more discriminated against than Dalits and Muslims

Roshni Nair,HT  Ramachandra Guha’s session at Tata Literature Live! was a tad longer than the stipulated 60 minutes, but no one was complaining. (Anshuman Poyrekar) Ramachandra Guha’s session at Tata Literature Live! was a tad longer than the stipulated 60… Continue Reading →

B. R. Bhaskar Prasad is a Dalit writer and activist – Chalo Udupi: My Food, My Land

  B. R. Bhaskar Prasad was interviewed by Palani Samy and Nidhin Sowjanya for Dalit Camera before the Chalo Udupi rally. The text was translated from Kannada by Savitha Rajamani, Vinod Pushparaj, Chinnamma and Anusha Suresh.The interview was videographed by Karthik Ranganathan.  B…. Continue Reading →

Kopardi murder-rape case and the Maratha Kranti Morcha: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

By Sudhir Dhawale, Republican Panthers. Translated from the Marathi by Swati Birla. Original pamphlet at end.   The silent Maratha Kranti Morcha will have to speak up. Are they anti-Dalit? Are they protesting against the government’s neoliberal policies? Or are… Continue Reading →

Suicide Of Two Dalits To Save Democratic-Secular India

— by Shamsul Islam — These are sad times for India. Rohith Vemula, a Dalit, committed suicide on January 16, 2016 due to gross injustice done by Hyderabad University bosses and BJP central ministers. The State, its police organ and… Continue Reading →

“Who Killed Swamy Laxmananda?” 

— by Cynthia Stephen — The events in Kandhamal in 2008 shook the entire country.  The large number of tribal and Dalit Christians in this remote district of the then Orissa (now Odisha) state were subjected to months, even years… Continue Reading →

Lucknow’s Dalit students suffer the same fate as Hyderabad’s

MUDIT MATHUR Bias in the air: Dalit students discuss caste bias in the BBAU campus with Human Resources Minister Prakash Jawedkar Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time broke his silence over the tragic suicide of Dalitscholar Rohith Vemula… Continue Reading →

Punjab – Dalit youth paraded naked in Tarn Taran #WTFnews

Gurbaxpuri Tarn Taran, November 2 A 20-year-old Dalit youth was paraded naked by armed persons at Pakhoke village late last evening. Brutally tortured, Amritpal Singh alias Amrit was admitted to the civil hospital here. His condition is serious.Sources said a… Continue Reading →

In caste-driven Uttarakhand region, Muslims ally with Dalits to seek rights

Shivani Azad| TNN | Representative image. DEHRADUN: Across India,dalits have been increasingly allying with Muslims, both in states heading to polls, and elsewhere. Uttarakhand‘sJaunsar-Bawar is the state’s most caste conflict-prone area, and was in the news earlier this year for… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh- Custodial Deaths becoming rallying point for Dalits

‘Problem graver than Una’: Chhattisgarh Dalits up in arms over custodial death Ritesh Mishra, HT, Janjgir-Champa | Santosh Norge’s two sons—Rahul and Prakash — and his wife Usha Devi in Sagarpara village in Champa district’s Janjgir . Satish’s death has… Continue Reading →

A story of culinary apartheid

An enforced culture of want among India’s most marginalized gave birth to unique dishes of dried meats, offal and breads—but every morsel is painful Ashwaq Masoodi ‘Randana roti’ being made in Nagpur. Photos: Sunny Shende/Mint Kanta Prasad is 64, but… Continue Reading →

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