दलित
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...
November 24, 2016
गुजरात। राज्य के इतिहास में पहली बार गुजरात सेंट्रल युनिवर्सिटी में दलित, ओबीसी और आदिवासी छात्रों ने एकजुटता दिखाते हुए छात्रसंघ के चुनावों में जीत दर्ज की है। गुजरात में दलित युवक की पिटाई के बाद देश भर में दलित, ओबीसी और आदिवासी एकजुट हो रहे हैं। जिससे मनुवादियों को करारा जवाब मिल रहा है। इसके पहले भी देश की सबसे प्रतिष्ठित युनिवर्सिटी जेएनयू में छात्रों ने एकजुट होकर मनुवादियों को हार का...
November 23, 2016
Image Courtesy: Southlive
PATNA: Police in Bihar’s eastern Madhepura district on Tuesday arrested two of the six menaccused of setting afire as many as 18 houses belonging to a Mahadalit community — the poorest among the Dalit communities living in Bihar.
Media reports say that nearly 50 people from the distressed Mahadalit community in Udakishan area, many of them...
November 20, 2016
Gujarat manhole deaths: High Court seeks details of what state govt has done to compensate kin by Dec 7. Petition by Manav Garima Trust
Images Courtesy: Counterview (Jitendra Rathod)
The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government pleader to obtain details of the “follow up action” taken, pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court for...