When Amit Shah, president of Narendra Modi′s ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: “What is behenji thinking?” By “behenji”, or “older sister”, Modi means Mayawati, the enigmatic politician… Continue Reading →
By Sinduja Jane | CHENNAI: Casteist discrimination is not new for them, having faced and resisted it all throughout their lives to become successful doctors, some serving in government service. But if a patient is hesitant to approach a doctor because… Continue Reading →
In the last eight years, 58 manual scavengers have died on duty. Sarayu Srinivasan| Within five months of getting married and a little over a year after Venkatramana took up manual scavenging, he became a statistic. Twenty-four-year-old Venkatramana, a Dalit, died… Continue Reading →
HT, Allahabad A 28-year-old jobless Dalit man, identified as Dharmendra, allegedly died of hunger in a village of Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad district on Sunday morning. (Representative Photo) A 28-year-old jobless Dalit man, identified as Dharmendra, allegedly died of hunger in… Continue Reading →
By: Anurag Bhaskar | October 20, 2016 The recent statement of Abhay Bhardwaj, a lawyer from Gujarat, recently appointed as a part-time member to the Law Commission of India, must be seen as a retrograde to the legal fraternity…. Continue Reading →
Patna: Bihar Police has ordered the arrest of a Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV)principal for not taking timely action in a Dalit student`s thrashing in the school premises in August, police said on Friday. “An arrest warrant against Muzaffarpur Kendriya Vidyalaya’s Principal, Ravi… Continue Reading →
Zainab Kantawala Young film-maker Sonam Singh has made a documentary film on the Kabir Kala Manch controversy Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind,” Satyajit Ray once said. Young film-maker… Continue Reading →
AHMEDABAD: In the second round of agitation by dalits, nearly 200 protesters from Saroda village of Dholka taluka, including women, were literally dragged to detention by city police for demanding their land rights in front of Ahmedabad district collectorate. … Continue Reading →
I am 16 years old, a student of a government school in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. For the last few days, everyone wants to know why I was beaten so mercilessly and why I kept silent for so long. Well, I… Continue Reading →
Despite breaking stereotypes, Dalit doctors’ experiences are a reminder of their painful past Divya Karthikeyan| Pheba Mathew| Ponnusamy* is the first doctor from Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai village. Returning to practice there after he obtained his degree, he learned that there… Continue Reading →
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