The SC and ST Coordination Committee and other Dalit and tribal bodies here on Sunday demanded that the Government take immediate steps to arrest Patngarh MLA Saroj Kumar Meher for forcing Junior Engineer Jayakant Sabar to do sit-ups in […]
Bhopal, A village panchayat in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district reportedly asked family members of a rape survivor, who belongs to a lower caste, to hold a community feast so that she was “purified”. When the family expressed its inability to […]
Barely had the dust settled on the brutal killing of a toddler in Aligarh and a ten-year-old girl in Hamirpur, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly hacked to death after rape in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s home district of […]
Getting a haircut is a routine affair for most men, but it’s not so for lakhs of Dalit men in hundreds of villages in Gujarat. Since before Independence, Dalit men have been denied a haircut by barbers in villages of […]
Dehradun: Three men accused of raping a 13- year-old Dalit girl were produced in court and were later sent to a 14-day judicial custody on Saturday. Talking to TOI, circle officer Almora, Kamal Ram Arya said that the accused identified […]
In a representation to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Right to Education (RTE) Forum national convener Ambarish Rai has said that the forthcoming Union budget must put into effect the draft New Education Policy 2019 view that 6% of GDP […]
Departmental action will be taken against officials if found guilty in connection with the alleged discriminatory practices prevailing against scheduled caste people in S Valayapatti village who were attacked by members of an intermediate caste, said the vice-chairman of National […]
Modi govt policy to induct domain experts into the civil service does not provide for quotas, a decision labelled unfair by Dalit IAS, IRS officers. New Delhi: The Modi government’s decision to not extend reservation to domain experts recruited in […]
Four workers entered the sewer tank outside Darshan hotel in Fartikuwi village. None of them was wearing protective gear. When the workers did not respond for long, the three hotel staffers went in to look for them. Seven people were […]
Editor’s note: This is part of a seven-part series on manual scavenging in India. It examines the practice from a socio-political point of view. While passing through a neighbourhood once, I overheard some people fighting and calling each other names. […]
