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Arrest of Hany Babu: State acting ‘in concert with’ communal, casteist non-state forces
arun Posted On August 4, 2020


Counterview Desk Expresses “outrage” at the recent arrest of renowned linguist, Dr Hany Babu MT, faculty member at the Delhi University, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, India’s premier human rights organization, People’s […]


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How Panther’s Paw Publications is publishing its Dalit books during, and against, the pandemic
arun Posted On August 4, 2020


Yogesh Maitreya Until March 22, 2020, I was reluctant to shift back to my hometown, Nagpur. Home to me was my hostel room (D-305) in Tata Institute of Social Sciences’s campus in Mumbai. A notice had just been circulated to […]


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GN Saibaba denied bail to see his dying mother
arun Posted On July 30, 2020


Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has rejects temporary bail to the former DU prof, now a serving a life sentence Gokalkonda Naga Saibaba’s mother G. Suryavathi has been in hospital for nearly a week now. The family says her […]


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Bhima Koregaon: Arundhati Roy criticises Centre for arresting DU professor Hany Babu
arun Posted On July 30, 2020


Author Arundhati Roy on Wednesday criticised the government’s “relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers” in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad cases. Roy’s remarks came a day after the National Investigation Agency arrested Delhi University professor MT Hany Babu in […]


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The attack on Rajgruha is an attempt to deny Dalit self-respect
arun Posted On July 30, 2020


On the night of 7 July, two individuals vandalised Rajgruha, the Mumbai home of BR Ambedkar. CCTV cameras in the premises noted two men pelting stones at the windows of the house, smashing flower pots and ripping out plants outside […]


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DU prof to remain in NIA custody till Aug 4 in Elgar Parishad case
arun Posted On July 30, 2020


A special court on Wednesday remanded Delhi University professor Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil, 54, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s custody until August 4 a day after the agency arrested him for allegedly conspiring with Maoists to foment violence in […]


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ELGAR PARISHAD – BHIMA KOREGAON CASE : ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
arun Posted On July 28, 2020


By NAMIT GUPTA Elgar Parishad was an event organized on 31st of December 2017 at Pune’s Shaniwarwada fort as a symbol of Dalit assertion to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon Bhima. According to retired Justice P.B […]


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MMC urged to restore ban on accused docs’ licences
arun Posted On July 28, 2020


Payal Tadvi allegedly suffered casteist abuse at the hands of the three accused Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Andolan says state medial council acted without hearing the victim’s mother. Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Andolan, a Pune-based social organisation, has written to the Maharashtra […]


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Payal Tadvi Suicide: Maharashtra Medical Council Revokes Suspension Of 2 Accused Doctors
arun Posted On July 21, 2020


The Maharashtra Medical Council has revoked the suspension of medical licences of two of the three doctors booked for allegedly abetting the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi, a second-year postgraduate medical student at the BYL Nair Hospital. The council, in […]


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Dalit Atrocities: In Pursuit of Justice Amid Lockdown
arun Posted On July 18, 2020


Ever since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in India at around mid-March, Rahul Dambale, a Pune-based Dalit activist with Republican Yuva Morcha, said he has recorded over 50 serious cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis, and six of […]


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