जाति
December 15, 2016
In July 2016, Jignesh Mevani, a practising lawyer and activist, battling for access to land for Dalits through Gujarat’s courts –for close to half a decade before that date-- burst onto the national scene, leading the protests in the state after the Una incident when Dalits were brutally beaten, simply because they were performing their work, cleaning and curing of carcasses of dead...
December 15, 2016
मोदी-मोदी-मोदी।
HRD मंत्रालय के केंद्रीय राज्य मंत्री पांडेय जी ने संसद को बताया है कि OBC को रिज़र्वेशन सिर्फ असिस्टेंट प्रोफ़ेसर लेवल पर मिलेगा।
एसोसिएट और प्रोफ़ेसर लेवल पर OBC रिज़र्वेशन नहीं मिलेगा। जबकि ज़्यादातर नियुक्तियाँ इसी लेवल पर होती है।
मंडल कमीशन ने स्पष्ट रूप से सभी स्तरों पर ओबीसी रिज़र्वेशन देने की सिफ़ारिश की है।
यह कहने का मतलब क्या है कि कांग्रेस के समय...
December 15, 2016
सरकारी मशीनरी का इस्तेमाल यह साबित करने में किया गया कि रोहित वेमुला दलित नहीं थे और उनकी मां ने इस बारे में झूठ बोला है। राधिका वेमुला को केंद्र सरकार के इशारे पर लगातार अभद्रता, अपमान और लांछन का शिकार बनाया जा रहा है।
जनवरी महीने की 17 तारीख रोहित वेमुला की पहली पुण्यतिथि होगी। उनकी त्रासद आत्महत्या किसी सांस्थानिक...
December 14, 2016
Professor Meenakshi Reddy accused of casteist and prejudicial behaviour including failing Dalit students wins a judicial victory that gives six months hail to the students
A court on Tuesday sentenced five Dalit students from the English and Foreign Languages University here to six-month imprisonment for defamation. Fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granted the five...
December 13, 2016
January 17 will mark the first death anniversary of Rohith Vemula. His tragic suicide, nothing short of an institutional murder, caused outrage and a Justice for Rohith movement across the country. One of the demands was for a separate law to protect and defend the rights of Dalit and Adivasi students from the discrimination and injustice embedded or practiced against them in differing degrees in...
December 12, 2016
Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yagati Chinna Rao
Image courtesy Orient Blackswan
Are you fit for political power even though you do not allow a large class of your own countrymen like the untouchables to use public schools? …public wells? …public streets? …to eat any food they like?
—B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste
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December 8, 2016
Yesterday's incident at Korale Khurd followed the murder of 21-year-old Aruna Mohite, allegedly by her estranged lover Siddharth Dhanane (24), a Dalit, police said.
Image: PTI
Angry over the killing of a girl belonging to the upper-caste Maratha community, a Dalit locality was attack on the outskirts of Korale Khurd village in Satara. Police in Satara district of western Maharashtra...
December 7, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of Dalits gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to pay their respects to the scholar-reformer.
Image credit: Punit Paranjpe/ AFP
The last time Lalitabai Kamble travelled to Mumbai, it was 1972 and she was a young teenager. Of all the sites she visited in the city, BR Ambedkar’s memorial in Dadar was not one of them.
“Back then, my family had no...
December 6, 2016
In conversation: BEZWADA WILSON and T.M. KRISHNA, with Nilanjana Roy, on Sunday, 11th December, 7 pm, at Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
December 1, 2016
A statue of BR Ambedkar was today found desecrated in Dudwa Dharampuri locality in Sant Ravidas Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, leading to tension in the area.
Some anti-social elements damaged the four feet tall statue of Ambedkar by throwing stones at it, said Circle Officer Paramhans Mishra.
Protesting against the incident, an angry mob blocked traffic on the main road for...