In Old Lucknow, echoes of Shaheen Bagh, Prayagraj: ‘So cold and foggy… still we are here’ TAKING A cue from the anti-citizenship law protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and the sit-in in Prayagraj, hundreds of women and children from the […]
Mass training and reservations brought new groups to the IITs and radically changed the demographic makeup of these institutions. As a result, the social profile of the IITian as part of an urban middle class has given way to the […]
D.G. Sagar, president of the organisation, said the CAA and NRC would affect not just Muslims, as some people thought or were trying to project, but the poor and deprived sections of all communities such as Dalits, Adivasis and Backward […]
Bengaluru: The clamour for reservation in government services and educational institutes in the state is growing and experts suggest it has a lot to do with the lack of jobs. While some castes are demanding a hike in reservation, others […]
The Alliance against CAA-NRC has also organised nation-wide demonstrations on Rohith Vemula’s death anniversary on January 17, 2020. New Delhi: “The Modi government has perpetuated exclusion as an ideology; Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens are a […]
NEW DELHI: Dalit groups have come together now to demand a repeal of the contentious Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) and stall the NRC (National Register for Citizens) and NPR (National Population Register) exercises urging the Modi government to take a […]
FIROZABAD: A glance out of Firozabad district hospital’s window sent shivers down the spine of Surya (name changed) who was firmly holding her newborn she can’t call her own outside. Staring at an uncertain future and an “unsparing” society, the […]
In a move that will gladden the hearts of Dalits across the State, the Maharashtra Government on Wednesday decided to increase the height of proposed statue of late BR Ambedkar at the Indu Mills compound in north-central Mumbai, by 100 […]
Ambedkar said he was brutalised because his name was a giveaway of the community he belongs to — the Dalits Lucknow-based activists S.R. Darapuri, Sadaf Jafar, Deepak Kabir and Pawan Rao Ambedkar — arrested by Uttar Pradesh police after the […]
Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing education or employment. However. they continue to […]
