NEW DELHI: For decades, stories from India’s Dalit community have remained largely untold even as millions of its people suffered widespread mistreatment and violence. SANJAY KUMAR Previously known as “untouchable,” Dalits are the lowest stratum of India’s Hindu caste system. […]
Women leaders have been given very little credit or acknowledgment for their existence. ey usually exist as some Maharaja’s wife in our history textbooks. Now add to the women’s quotient, the word ‘Dalit’. Women belonging to backward classes face casteism […]
NEW DELHI: For decades, stories from India’s Dalit community have remained largely untold even as millions of its people suffered widespread mistreatment and violence. SANJAY KUMAR Previously known as “untouchable,” Dalits are the lowest stratum of India’s Hindu caste system. […]
Kanshi Ram Birthday: Kanshi Ram gave a new direction to Dalit politics in the country. His slogans given on the stage used to create ruckus. Opponents were also convinced of his political skills. Kanshi Ram Birthday: There were two big […]
The word ‘caste’ (Jaat) is a widely discussed subject in South Asia. It is still alive and exists in the 21st century. Mostly in India and Nepal, caste has been a problem for Dalits for ages. Often, the three organs […]
The street violence against women made her feel insulted, humiliated, and injured woman, and led to her decision of go to the Sabarimala Temple and make history as the first woman to enter it, said Bindu Ammini to Outlook. Shahina […]
The Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu is set to observe the 200th year of Thol Seelai Porattam (Upper Cloth Revolt), a cultural war taken forward predominantly by Nadar community women for the right to cover their breasts. It should be […]
The full-page advertisement which was published in dailies on the third day of the plenary session on Saturday, featured Congress leaders of the past A fresh controversy sparked on Sunday after an advertisement on Congress’s 85th plenary session which appeared […]
As election approaches, BJP pits ‘unpatriotic’ Tipu against ‘patriotic’ Savarkar. It’s an attempt to corner Hindu votes & divert attention from governance issues, say analysts. SHARAN POOVANNA Bengaluru: Last week, Karnataka’s higher education minister, C.N. Ashwath Narayan, made a controversial […]
The RSS/BJP intellectuals tell us today that texts like Ramcharitmanas are mirrors of our civilisation. Then where do the Shudras, Dalits, Adivasis and women exist, except for occasional humiliation? Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The mainstream media has been trying to avoid […]
