Access To Water Is A Crisis For The Powerless
Almost 100 years ago, around 3,000 Dalits, or “untouchables”, dared to drink from a public water tank in Mahad, Maharashtra,...
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Delhi HC Orders Strict Compliance With The SC Ruling On Manual Scavenging
In a recent order, the Delhi High Court has directed the city government and civic authorities to ensure compliance with...
“When Will RSS Have A Dalit Or A Woman As The Sarsanghchalak?”
On Wednesday, Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge engaged in a war of words with BJP national General Secretary B L Santhosh...
Transformative Justice For Dalits, Women Key For A Just Transition
At its Global Just Transition Dialogue earlier this year, the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST), a think-tank,...
California State Senate Passes Bill To Ban Caste Discrimination
Source: PTI The California Senate has overwhelmingly passed a legislation seeking to explicitly ban caste discrimination, in a historic move...
Seattle Bans Caste-Based Bias, Which Is Rife In SA Communities
Seattle became the first city in the U.S. to outlaw caste-based discrimination against immigrants from stigmatized groups in South Asia’s...
Dalit Women Face Bias Even In Schemes Meant To Help Them
Seema and her husband did quite well when they first opened a samosa stall in the local market of a...
MP: Seven Arrested For Asking Dalit Girl Not To Attend School
A group of locals allegedly told a 16-year-old Dalit girl not to attend school since other girls were also not...
A Message To Yogi: Priyanka Gandhi Picks Up The Broom
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday (October 8) paid a surprise visit to a Dalit locality in Lucknow and...
Another Dalit Will Take Over Party: Mayawati
BSP president Mayawati on Friday said it will be many years before she needs to name her successor but when...
Farmers, Poor Will Throw Modi Out Of Power: Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming he will be "thrown" out of power by...
“Today, I Am A Dalit”: Mamata At Kolkata Rally On Hathras
After leading a protest march in Kolkata on Saturday against what has come to be known as the "Hathras horror",...
Space For Democratic Dissent Shrinking In India: Academics
About 2,000 academics from top institutions in India and abroad have signed petitions demanding federal authorities stop targeting people critical...
Dalits Denied Entry To Barbershops In Kerala’s Idukki
Over 270 families belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) Chakkiliyan community in the Vattavada panchayat in the interior Idukki district...
40 Dalit Families Face Social Boycott In Odisha
Around 40 families belonging to the Dalit community in Kantio Kateni village of Odisha's Dhenkanal district were allegedly socially boycotted...
Dalit Woman’s Body Taken Off Funeral Pyre In UP
The body of a Dalit (formerly referred to as "untouchables") woman was taken off a funeral pyre by a group...
Cops Beat, Shave Dalit Man’s Head After Complaint By AP MLA
A Dalit youth had his head tonsured and was beaten up, allegedly by police, in the East Godavari district of...
A Letter To Dr Anand Teltumbde On His Birthday
courtesy: The Wire https://thewire.in/rights/anand-teltumbde-birthday-letter by Suraj Yengde, Balmurli Natrajan, Meena Kandasamy, Sangeeta Kamat and Biju Mathew Dear Anand, The din...
Amid Pandemic, Atrocities Against Dalits See A Rise
The Centre and states need to step up to clamp down on rising atrocities against Dalits amid the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Cisco Accused Of Discrimination Based On Indian Employee’s Caste
California regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to...
Black Lives Matter Must Fire Up India’s Anti-Caste Movement
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (courtesy The Print) The Covid-19 affected world is undergoing what can be called a “colour revolution”. The Black...
Dalits Call For Centuries Of Oppression To Be Acknowledged
Spurred on by the anti-racism protests in the United States, Dalits (a marginalised community once referred to as "untouchables") have...
UP: Dalit Men Beaten, Paraded With Shoes Around Their Neck
In a grim reminder of the 2016 Una flogging incident, three oppressed caste men were tied up, beaten, forcefully tonsured...
Dalit Teen Shot Dead After Temple Visit In UP
A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh village on Saturday night, five days after he had...
The George Floyds of India
by D Samarender Reddy | courtesy: Telangana Today Mobs roaming the streets and creating mayhem. Widespread rioting. Police cars and...
