दलित
December 7, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of Dalits gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to pay their respects to the scholar-reformer.
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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 7, 2016
There was precious little about the icon in the newspapers or on mainstream websites on Tuesday.
I wish to use the word Untouchable, with the U capitalised, with the unambiguous coldness with which Dr BR Ambedkar used it in his speeches and writings to describe a regime of systemic horror that most people of the subcontinent have learnt to live with for centuries. A system that saw...
December 6, 2016
आज डॉ भीमराव अंबेडकर की 60वीं पुण्यतिथि है. इन बीते छह दशकों में भारतीय लोकतंत्र ने बार-बार उन खतरों का सामना किया है जिनके प्रति उन्होंने सबसे पहले चेताया था
बीते 26 नवंबर को संविधान दिवस मनाया गया है. इस दिन 1949 को हमारे संविधान को स्वीकृति मिली थी और 2015 में केंद्र सरकार ने घोषणा की थी कि अब हर साल यह दिन संविधान दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाएगा. इस बार संविधान दिवस से संबंधित एक...
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 5, 2016
The moot question remains: when will the government and society stop hiring people for such dangerous and demeaning work of cleaning septic tanks and manholes?
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Activist Parsottam Vaghela has successively, after a month’s effort, on the late night of December 3, one month and three days after 3 sanitation workers died due to poisonous gas while...
December 3, 2016
अहमदाबाद। गुजरात उच्च न्यायालय ने गिर सोमनाथ जिले के उना कस्बे में दलितों को पीटने के मामले में संलिप्तता पर गिरफ्तार दो पुलिसकर्मियों सहित चार आरोपियों की जमानत मंजूर कर ली है।
न्यायाधीश एजे देसाई ने शांतिभाई मनपारा, नितिन कोठारी, उना के निलंबित पुलिस निरीक्षक निर्मलसिंह जाला और उपनिरीक्षक नरेंद्र देव पांडेय को जमानत दी। मनपारा सनातन गौ सेवा ट्रस्ट के न्यासी हैं और कोठारी ट्रस्ट से...
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...
December 1, 2016
हिन्दू महासभा ने टीना-आमिर की मोहब्बत पर खड़े किये सवाल
Video Courtesy: National Dastak
November 27, 2016
For the political alliance of convenience to mature into a social alliance with Dalits, Muslims have to engage with the entrenched caste practices and ideas within their own community
Photo credit: New Delhi News
The recently held Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Conference in Ajmer gave a call for Dalit Muslim unity. Laudable in its objectives because of the marginal positions of both these communities...
November 26, 2016
Glossy pamphlets, catchy slogans tell us building toilets at home is all about protecting the honour of bahu-betis. And who else but Dalits will clean them later?
As a development professional, I have walked into the offices of many NGOs and read many a lop-sided, glossy pamphlet with slogans that have made me flinch. As someone working on hygiene and sanitation issues, one among those...