In a city that boasts of being the IT capital of India, a family in Bengaluru has been living in a stinking public toilet for over two weeks now after losing their home in rains in an area called Lakkasandra. […]
Udupi, Oct 24: Since 20 years, Dalit woman Sundari Puttur has been collecting garbage in her own vehicle, which she bought with the help of several self-help groups. However, this time around when the ward was allocated, she was discriminated […]
Udupi, Oct 24: Since 20 years, Dalit woman Sundari Puttur has been collecting garbage in her own vehicle, which she bought with the help of several self-help groups. However, this time around when the ward was allocated, she was discriminated […]
Observing that an attack on anybody’s daughter is an attack on ‘our own daughter’, the division bench made this suggestion keeping in mind the issue of women’s safety, to curb this menace in the society, as rape is a ‘crime […]
Mystery shrouds the case of a Dalit girl supposed to have married five years ago but was missing for 5 years and is now suspected to have been murdered by her in-laws. The victim, Meghashree, was a student of MET […]
Udupi: Udupi district Boudh Mahasabha held the 64th Dhammachakra Pravartan Day on October 18. On the occasion more than 50 people belonging to the Dalit community have accepted Buddhism as their faith. The conversion took place on the 64th Dhamma Chakra Parivarthana […]
Ranga Raju* and his family have been living in Honnur village of Chamarajanagar for three generations. His ancestors had earned a living by running odd errands — sometimes sweeping the roads, burying the dead or bathing the cattle of caste […]
MYSURU: Two Dalit activists who requested a taluk administrative head that the procession of a local deity be taken through their colony during Dasara were pulled up and asked to pay up Rs 60,000 in penalty in Chamarajanagar district’s Yalandur […]
The Karnataka police on Friday arrested a 48-year-old farmer from Kudur in Ramanagara for allegedly killing his 18-year-old daughter for falling in love with a Dalit man. Eighteen-year-old Hemalatha’s body was recovered in a mango grove in Magadi, about 60 […]
A 48-year-old man in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district has confessed that he killed his 18-year-old daughter because she fell in love with a Dalit youth. Bengaluru: In an incident that highlights the prevalence of caste-based discrimination in our society, an 18-year-old […]
