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UK wakes up to caste bias

Shalini Nair : London, Tue Mar 26 2013, IE For a place that is only one-fifteenth the size of London, Coventry has a large number of gurdwaras. Even that might not have seemed so incongruous considering that Sikhs are the largest… Continue Reading →

Press Release-We have to move beyond Ambedkar for realization of the Dalit emancipation

  Press Release (Press release in hindi and punjabi are attached) Last day of the national level seminar on “Caste Question and Marxism” We have to move beyond Ambedkar for realization of the Dalit emancipation Chandigarh, 16 March.Ambedkar waged a fierce… Continue Reading →

No escape from caste prejudice even in UK #discrimination #humanrights

ByAnahita Mukherji, TNN | Mar 16, 2013, Many Indians in the work place say they have faced a great deal of harassment from other Indians on grounds of caste. LONDON: If you happen to be of Dalit origin, or from the so-called lower… Continue Reading →

#India- inter-caste marriage- couple faces threat to lives

Tribune News Service Priyanka and Suresh fear threat to their lives due to their inter-caste marriage. A Tribune Photograph Sirsa, December 16 A newly wedded couple is facing threat to its lives for breaking customs and marrying outside their castes…. Continue Reading →

University of Lucknow- Stop Casteism! Stop Discrimination!

December 5, 2012 The following article was written bySeema Chandra, a student activist of Lucknow University, over an incident of caste discrimination suffered by her younger sister and college mate – Garima Chandra. Instead of acting on it, the University has only… Continue Reading →

#India- Eight Dalit houses burnt in caste violence

By Express News Service – CUDDALORE 28th November 2012 08:48 AM In a sudden attack on a Dalit colony near Vadalur, at least eight houses were set ablaze by a group belonging to caste Hindu community on Tuesday. The men also… Continue Reading →

India–Caste control & FDI

November 26, 2012, Deccan chronicle. Kancha Ilaiah The opening of the retail market for foreign entrepreneurs has invited sharp reactions from several quarters. The main argument against it is that the livelihood of millions of small shop owners would be… Continue Reading →

Publishers, editors hounded as part of condemnable caste politics

  HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Chandigarh, October 02, 2012 A national conglomerate of rights organisations has come out in support of the two publishers and as many poets-cum-book editors from Barnala and Patiala who are facing legal action for reprinting… Continue Reading →

Probe finds discrimination against SC/ST students in Delhi medical college

Akshaya Mukul, TNN | Sep 24, 2012 NEW DELHI: A comprehensive enquiry by Bhalchandra Mungekar, Rajya Sabha MP, has found blatant caste-based discrimination against SC/ST students in Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Mungekar, who was appointed commissioner of… Continue Reading →

Corporate Boards in India Blocked by Caste? – #mustread

#mustr The latest EPW (August 11, 2012) reports a first-of-its-kind study at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, on the caste composition of the boards of the top 1,000 Indian companies (“Corporate Boards in India:Blocked By Caste?”, by D.Ajit,… Continue Reading →

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