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HP schools to distribute mid-day meal as per roll number to check caste discrimination

By: Express News Serivice | Simla | Photo for representational purpose.In an innovative way to fight caste discrimination in schools, Himachal Pradesh government has decided to serve mid-day meals as per the roll number of students. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday directed the… Continue Reading →

We Are All Dalits and Everywhere We Appear We Shall Win

Policemen brutally beating students and activists at the Delhi rally outside the office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, in New Delhi on Saturday, January 30, the 27th birth anniversary of Dalit scholar and… Continue Reading →

Rohith Vemula’s Death A Noose around the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Neck

Rohith Vemula’s death is not a stray case of a life claimed by caste prejudice. Atrocities against Dalits have intensifi ed with the rise of Hindutva forces. While the persecution of Dalit scholars in the recent past has gone relatively… Continue Reading →

India – A Study of Response to Suicides of Dalit students

A study of the responses to suicides by Dalit and other marginalised students in higher educational institutions in India throws up a disturbing picture of a deeply casteist society BY- DIVYA TRIVEDI Not just the government, but the college administrations,… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading – 19 years later, a scholar’s suicide – from Ramabai to ROHITH

11/7/1997 FROM RAMABAI TO ROHITH By Alka Dhupkar, Mumbai Mirror | T From top: Shanta Katar-Narve, in spectacles, and her family revisit news clips on her son Nandu; Activist Jaywant Hire at home with his periodicals; Rohith Vemula’s poster at the Buddha… Continue Reading →

Targetting of Dalit Student at TISS by RSS supporters Hosting Talk by Rajiv Malhotra

By Sonali Waghmare While TISS campus was reverberating with slogans against Brahminwaad and highhandedness of HRD ministry and Hyderbad Central University administration on 25th January, posters and banners of an event by Rajiv Malhotra titled ‘Sanskrit and Sanskriti’ appeared on… Continue Reading →

#RohithVemula: Open Letter to the President of India by IIM-Calcutta Students

To, The President of India Subject: An urgent appeal to address discrimination and political interference in academic institutions in the wake of the death of RohithVemula. We, a group of students and faculty of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,… Continue Reading →

India – 70 generations ago, caste stopped people inter-mixing

Subodh Varma & Sharon Fernandes | TNN |   Study traces Indians’ origins to five ancestral groups. India‘s present diverse population arose from five types of ancient populations that freely mixed and interbred for thousands of years before the rigid… Continue Reading →

Caste clashes in Madurai as caste-Hindu parent takes offence to Dalit boy sitting cross-legged

Both the families have since attacked each other. TNM Staff| Friday, February 5, 2016 – 09:19 Image: Dalitnation A father-son duo belonging to an upper caste attacked a 16-year-old Dalit boy in Madurai following an argument at the boys’ school,… Continue Reading →

Kanpur: Chair ‘purified’ after Dalit woman pradhan sits on it #WTFnews

Chair used by Dalit  woman pradhan ‘purified’ in Kanpur Dehat Faiz Rahman Siddiqui | TNN | Feb 5, 2016, 07.19 AM IST   (Representative Image) Kanpur: The headmaster of a primary school in Kanpur Dehat district on Wednesday allegedly ‘purified’ with… Continue Reading →

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