Category Caste Discrminination
JYOTI PUNWANI 29 Jul 2021 For 15 years, these Mumbai contract workers struggled to be treated on par with regular workers and went from success to success, despite arrests and dismissals. Then the State used a law meant to be used… Continue Reading →
By Express News Service TIRUCHY: The construction of an ‘untouchability wall’ separating Scheduled Caste residential colonies and farms at Kal Kandarkottai near Tiruchy has triggered a row, and functionaries of the CPM staged a protest on Tuesday, condemning caste Hindus. The nine-foot wall,… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JULY 23, 2021 The ‘Bonalu’ song is dedicated to Maisamma, a village deity who doesn’t come under the Brahmininical fold. By Balakrishna Ganeshan Singer Mangli, who has sung popular numbers like ‘Saranga Dariya’ from Love Story and ‘Ramuloo… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JULY 18, 2021 By Anuraag Singh BHOPAL: Two shocking incidents happened in Madhya Pradesh on Friday night. While a Dalit groom and his kin were stopped from entering a Hanuman temple in the Manpur area of Indore district,… Continue Reading →
Stan Swamy has saved India by his death. The world has come to know how the Indian regime could crucify one who worked for the most oppressed. Our constitutional democracy obviously has not changed the hearts of those who don’t… Continue Reading →
By Vaidehi Gautam^ TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of suicides and caste-based discrimination. Whenever any conversation around caste takes place, it is usually attributed to the rural and educated domains of India where the ingrained bias of the people regarding caste identities… Continue Reading →
Rama Hansraj by Mariya Salim NEW DELHI, India, Jul 2 2021 (IPS) – Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have found common ground in leading change in conflict-torn South Sudan. Rama… Continue Reading →
Posted On June 24, 2021 AGRA: Almost a month after a Dalit wedding procession was allegedly assaulted by members of another community near a mosque in Noorpur village in UP’s Aligarh, BJP MP Satish Gautam has laid the foundation stone… Continue Reading →
By- Isheeta Sharma & Vaidehi Gautam Internet Freedom Foundation hosted a session titled ‘Settled Habits, New Tricks: Casteist Policing Meets Big Tech in India’ on June 18 with Ameya Bokil, Avaneendra Khare, Nikita Sonavane, Srujana Bej and Vaishali Janarthanan; chaired… Continue Reading →
By Kirity Roy Chennai: Two civil society groups have written to the Principal Secretaries, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal government to hurriedly rescue a group of 13 migrant workers from 24 Paraganas district, West Bengal, who are stranded in Madurai Tamilnadu… Continue Reading →