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Bhima Koregaon: Two probes, numerous arrests but Dalit anger still simmering
arun Posted On December 9, 2018


To be sure, there are two police probes. One is conducted by the Pune (Rural) Police and looks into the violence on January 1 in Bhima Koregaon. The other is by the Pune (Urban) Police and is investigating an event […]


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Ram Mandir to Maharashtra cop video: IPS officer’s guide to fighting caste & religious bias
arun Posted On December 9, 2018


The behaviour of lower rank police officers often depends on the attitudes and biases of the higher level IPS officers. A recent video of a police officer from Maharashtra, Bhagyashree Navtake, boasting about how she files false cases against Dalits […]


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How Dalit-Lower Caste Unity Laid the Foundation for the Ambedkarite Movement
arun Posted On December 8, 2018


The participation of non-Dalits in the Ambedkarite movement has been forgotten and the OBCs are now considered foot soldiers of those who perpetrate atrocities on Dalits. The Ambedkarite movement is often considered as the ‘Mahars movement’, sometimes even in academic […]


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Upper-caste share is down, more marginal groups enter campuses
arun Posted On December 6, 2018


New education report: Muslims, disabled most under-represented. While the proportion of upper-caste students in higher education institutions is still considerably higher than their share in the population, for the first time ever their “erstwhile near-monopoly” is being eroded with their […]


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On Ambedkar’s death anniversary, ally remembers his concerns
arun Posted On December 6, 2018


In 1958, two years after Dr BR Ambedkar embraced Buddhism in Nagpur, along with scores of his followers, Jalandhar-based Lahori Ram Bali (89) started the Bheem Patrika magazine, then in Urdu, to take Ambedkar’s message far and wide. Sixty years […]


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ARTICLE  / DALIT
Twitter’s Caste Problem
arun Posted On December 4, 2018


Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies. On Nov. 13, Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter, met with several female journalists and activists in New Delhi to […]


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Our Constitution, the Corner Stone of Indian Democracy, is Violated by the Narendra Modi-led Government With Impunity
arun Posted On November 28, 2018


The invocation of cultural nationalism propagated by BJP and RSS negates the creative nationalism fashioned during the freedom struggle. 26th November is observed as the Constitution Day. It was on this day in 1949 that the Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted […]


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ARTICLE  / DALIT
Liberals in India have a caste problem
arun Posted On November 26, 2018


The Twitter storm that erupted over a poster saw a range of opinions across the board—some predictable, some shocking. By Sujata Anandan In the years when the BJP was finding no allies and no political party would touch Atal Bihari […]


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IIT Kanpur Case Tip of the Iceberg: Dalits Missing from Campus in Absence Support System
arun Posted On November 21, 2018


Saderla is the one of the only four SC teachers among dominating 391 general category teachers. Four professors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) were booked, for allegedly harassing a Dalit colleague, under the IT Act and SC […]


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‘Tell everyone we scalped you’: How caste still rules in India
arun Posted On November 19, 2018


When Sardar Singh Jatav set out walking on a muggy night in early September to talk with the men who employed his son, he found them already waiting for him in the road. But they were not in the mood […]


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