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P. SAMUEL JONATHAN, The Hindu The HinduA memorial stone erected in the memory of Anil Kumar, who died in police firing at Tsunduru village in Guntur District. Photo: T.Vijaya Kumar Dalit associations say justice eludes victims On this day,… Continue Reading →
MADURAI, August 2, 2013 Closes Habeas Corpus petition filed by mother The Madras High Court bench here on Thursday closed a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam functionary, who claimed that her daughter was kidnapped… Continue Reading →
Arun Janardhanan, TNN | Jul 30, 2013, Amina Wadud is one of the founding members of Sisters in Islam, a women group for gender equality and justice. RELATED Now Chennai police bust IPL betting racket In Chennai, police busy with other cases… Continue Reading →
Chithralekha, the Dalit woman auto rickshaw driver from Payannur (who has been fighting the CITU/CPM in her locality for a long time now), and her husband Shreeshkanth, have been picked up by the police and arrested on july 17,… Continue Reading →
M.K. Ananth, The Hindu A youth going through the ‘anti inter-caste marriage’ pamphlets that were circulated to them in Namakkal on Sunday. —Photo: M.K. Ananth “I have known girls (friends and relatives) of our community fall in love with boys… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLVIII No. 29, July 20, 2013 , EPW Ilavarasan’s death warns us that one cannot be fought without attacking the other. Caste prejudice and caste as a relationship, as B R Ambedkar pointedly asserted, rest upon endogamous marriages…. Continue Reading →
DC | Pradeep Damodaran & Sanjeevi Anandan | A view of the Dalit village in Dharmapuri – Balu Mahendran R Dharmapuri: About eight months ago, two young lovers —Dalit youth Ilavarasan, 19, and Vanniyar girl Divya, 18,—eloped from their home in… Continue Reading →
The Dalit Panther‘s first leap Participant of the Dalit Panther movement in the 70s, Sunil Dighe reminisces here about its hopes and failure. The movement would have been 40 today. Each nation has its share of movements but some movements are… Continue Reading →
tags: caste, Dalits, Ilavarasan, Tamil Nadu, Vanniyars Dalit youth E. ILAVARASAN, whose marriage to a Vanniyar girl had resulted in caste violence in Tamil Nadu last year, was found dead on a railway track . Given below is an interview Ilavarasan gave to KAVIN MALAR and was published in the Tamil edition… Continue Reading →
Dalit boy Ilavarasan found dead on railway tracks agencies E. Ilavarasan, the Dalit boy whose marriage to a Vanniyar girl triggered violence in three villages of Dharmapuri district in November 2012, was found dead along a railway track in Dharmapuri… Continue Reading →