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Marriage within clan: Dalit family forced out of village

Sukhbir Siwach| TNN |  CHANDIGARH: A panchayat of dalits at a village in Haryana‘s Karnal district has forced a family from the community to leave home after its son married a girl from the same gotra (caste clan). The panchyat… Continue Reading →

Minorities Commission Sees ‘Brazen Communal Bias’ in Jharkhand Police Handling of Latehar Lynching

BY AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA The NCM report on the Latehar lynching indicates that ever since the BJP came to power in Jharkhand, the culture of Hindu majoritarianism has become dominant. Two cattle traders were beaten and hanged to death in Latehar,… Continue Reading →

Where Is The Hindu Social Reform Movement?

   Hindutva organisations answer the problem of caste and untouchability by seeking to give Hindu pride to Dalits and OBCs. The effort has seen mixed results, but can’t be called successful by any standards. What they never seek is confrontation… Continue Reading →

Cuttack – Nursing students strike in SCB Medical collage on ‘Casteist remarks’

Bhubhneshwar, May 20-   The students are on strike from the 9th of this month.  On 7th May, Subhadra Murmu, a fourth year nursing intern was allegedly dragged by her hair and beaten up by the School Principal, Kajal Sinha,… Continue Reading →

5 percent of Indian marriages inter-caste; Mizoram is highest with 55 percent

Mizoram Has Highest Number of Inter-Caste Marriages in India With 55% BY PRACHI SALVE AND SAUMYA TEWARI, INDIASPEND.ORG A representative sample of 41,554 households contacted for the study was spread across 33 states and union territories, in rural and urban India…. Continue Reading →

75% of all children out of school are Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims

By Afroz Alam Sahil, Twocircles.net New Delhi: A reply to a questioned asked in the Rajya Sabha has brought forth alarming statistics in terms of education in India: despite the Right to Education and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, about 60.64 lakh… Continue Reading →

5 Dalit youths die of asphyxia while looking for water in abandoned well

Manvir Saini| TNN |    CHANDIGARH: Five Dalityouths, including two teenage boys died of asphyxia while cleaning an abandoned well in a Dalit basti in Jind‘s Nidanavillage on Monday morning. According to sources, the village has only two tubewells and… Continue Reading →

Ahmedabad: At Babarkot, the wait is longer for Dalit women

The panchayat got separate well for the Dalits and it was cleaned twice in five years. “Mischievous elements make it dirty every time,” says sarpanch’s son. Written by Gopal Kateshiya | Babarkot | Hamir Vala and his wife Diwaliben with… Continue Reading →

‘Casteist remarks’: SCB College Nursing students on strike Day 9 in Odisha

    ‘Casteist remarks’: Nursing students lodge FIR against principal in Odisha Subhadra Murmu, an Adivasi nursing student, was held by her hair and slapped twice by her principal on May 7 at SCB medical college, one of the biggest medical… Continue Reading →

Rape and Murder of a Student in Kerala #Vaw

It Is High Time to Ask Some Hard Questions BY J. DEVIKA At a single stroke, the rape and murder of a Dalit law student has fully exposed the dimensions of social exclusion in contemporary Kerala. Representational image. Credit: Reuters. In a… Continue Reading →

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