भेदभाव
December 22, 2016
The Union government has finally woken up to the dangerous situation in Manipur and has sent 4000 central paramilitary troops to control ethnic tension which has been building over weeks and are now threatening to spiral out of control. It should have done this at least a month ago when as a consequence of an indefinite blockade on the lifelines of Manipur by a Naga civil organisation, United...
December 21, 2016
IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
DISTRICT: AHMEDABAD
MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. OF 2016
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December 20, 2016
While the Dalit upsurge in Una in Gujarat received widespread attention, an atrocity against Dalit youths being thrashed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the same time did not. It remained merely a Paswan versus Bhumihar confrontation. Dalits remain a differentiated group in Bihar, and have a long way to go before the community can rise above the imperatives of the here and now and assert as a...
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...
December 17, 2016
On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide. For the whole year, his mother, brother and thousands of others have been asking for justice, and hold the University’s VC accountable for the institutional murder of Vemula.
But far from acting in this regard, the government continues to ask: was he even a Dalit? Was he not an anti-national...
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
नई दिल्ली। क्या किसी को डायन बता कर उसकी जान लेना सही होता है? यह एक ऐसा सवाल है जो आपको सोचने पर मजबूर कर देता है? लेकिन यह बात सच है। झारखंड के जिला सिमडेगा के बानो थाना क्षेत्र के टेंबरो में एक बुजुर्ग दंपत्ति को डायन का आरोप लगाकर उसको जिंदा जला दिया।
इससे पहले दंपत्ति की पिटाई भी की गई। बता दें कि आरोपियों ने एक खेत में धान के पुआल में लपेटकर उन्हें आग लगा दिया। इस घटना के बाद...
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
The Jawaharlal Nehru university Student Union (JNUSU)'s call for Indefinite sir in, in late November was followed by a crude and militaristic intervention by the RSS-inspired Vice Chancellor of this prestigious institution of higher learning.
Image: The Hindu
Soon after JNUSU's call came, the space which used to be the spot for protest, inspiring speeches and meetings by students...
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...