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Hyderabad University – 36 students and faculty members have disappeared

UPDATE FROM HYDERABAD UNIVERSITY             Between 21 and 36students and 3 professors were picked up yesterday around 5 pm, brutally beaten in a police van, and detained in unknown locations all night. We have some… Continue Reading →

Safe Karmachari Andolan writes to President of India on manual scavenging

T Shri Pranab Mukherjee The Hon’ble President of India Dear Sir, Sub: In solidarity with the community affected by the practice of manual scavenging and to have our voices heard against sewer deaths   On March 18, 2016, Safai Karmacharis… Continue Reading →

Caste and violence stalk Tamil Nadu, honour killings cast shadow

Aditya Iyer, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Shankar, a Dalit, who married Kausalya, a high-caste Hindu, was hacked to death by hired killers in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, on Sunday March 13, 2016 in a suspected case of honour killing. (Photo Courtesy:… Continue Reading →

Casteism has deep roots in MP schools: Activists

Shruti Tomar and Ranjan, Hindustan Times, Bhopal According to activists, the practice of untouchability is prevalent in many schools and anganwadis in rural Madhya Pradesh. (Photo for representation) e The death of a nine-year-old kid in Damoh due to alleged… Continue Reading →

Dalit boy denied water from hand pump, drowns while drinking from well

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Updated: Mar 09, 2016 22:42 IST The headmaster of the primary school and the headmistress of the middle school have been suspended and action has been initiated against the teachers to terminate their contracts. (Sunil… Continue Reading →

Would Kanhaiya liberate his party first?

  Saroj Kumar On the night of March 3, 2016, after his release, JNU Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar made an impressive speech. The nation loves speeches, the people had also liked Modi’s speeches in the past. Kanhaiya’s speech was… Continue Reading →

Judge’s Memo to Dalit Staff on “Washing Undergarments” Goes Viral

  A sub-judge in Erode has issued a notice to a woman court staff asking for an explanation for not washing clothes properly in his house. The woman staff replied by sending an apology, and the response and the judge’s… Continue Reading →

India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination

  Thu, Mar 03 10:47 AM IST By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact… Continue Reading →

Lessons for Indian journalism from Dalit mobilisation online

Missing The Story By MARTAND KAUSHIK |  VIPIN KUMAR/HINDUSTAN TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES Rohith Vemula’s suspension from the University of Hyderabad had been news in online Dalit forums for months, but was only picked up by the mainsteam media when protests broke… Continue Reading →

Act on my complaints or will commit suicide like Rohith: CCSU Dalit scholar

Pankul Sharma | TNN |    Meerut: Tired of inaction against a faculty member of Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU) who had allegedly harassed him, a Dalit research scholar from NAS College here has threatened to commit suicide “like Rohith Vemula” if… Continue Reading →

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