BY SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN Come August 15, and India’s airwaves are full of patriotic film songs—from the stirring anti-colonial Ai Vatan, Ai Vatan, Hum Ko Teri Qasam, picturised on Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his comrades, and war-related tearjerkers likeAi Mere Watan Ke Logon to rousing… Continue Reading →
By Express News Service Rural journalist and People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) P Sainath having a word with Sadanand Menon at a seminar in Hyderabad on Sunday | a ra dhakrishna HYDERABAD: The Una Dalit movement is not a… Continue Reading →
. BY HARISH KHARE Rural and semi-urban Gujarat remains a site of extensive and elaborate social discrimination. The only thing new about the Una violence is that it became available on social media and provoked a national hue and cry. Gujarat’s… Continue Reading →
AFP/GETTY IMAGES Betwa Sharma– Strange Innt? If this were a plot in a P.G. Wodehouse story then one of his eccentric characters would have summed up the situation between the two Magsaysay Award winners from India and its silent Prime… Continue Reading →
By SURABHI VAYA | SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES In mid July 2016, a video surfaced of an incident in Una town in Gujarat where a mob beat up four Dalit youths for picking up a cow carcass, and then paraded the young… Continue Reading →
In the last week of June, the case of Ashwathi, a nursing student from a poor Dalit family being forced to consume toilet cleaner by her seniors came to light. The incident had occurred a month earlier, on May… Continue Reading →
 HYDERABAD: Respected Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, We, Dontha Prashanth, Vijay Pedapudi and Seshaiah Chemudugunta are Dalit Research Scholars from University of Hyderabad belonging to the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) who were socially boycotted along with Rohith Vemula who was forced… Continue Reading →
Indrajit Hazra “I’ve seen people indulge in antisocial activities through the night, put on robes of gau rakshaks by the day .“Clark Kent a.k.a. Kal-El a.k.a. Superman couldn’t have made a more pertinent observation at the most pertinent of times.Narendra… Continue Reading →
The Magsaysay Award is the least he deserves. Most of all, he deserves our time and attention. Shivam Vij GETTY IMAGES The sewer divers of Delhi risk their lives to unclog the city’s maze-like drains. Dubbed ‘manual scavengers’, the workers… Continue Reading →
This village is 20 kms away from Una town. On 11th July 2016, when the youth from leather tanning caste of this village were skinning the skin of dead cows, they were attacked by dominant caste youth in the… Continue Reading →
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