The Dalit family lives in a crumbling two-room mud house. The 8ft x 6ft kitchen has a few pots, and Ashabai fetches firewood from the nearby forest daily to cook meals on a mud chulha. In Kanholi village, 20 km […]
In the supplementary chargesheet filed by the Pune police on the Bhima Koregaon violence case, the state has once again failed to establish that the arrested activists were involved in the violence. The chargesheet mostly relies on statements by the […]
This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers. Anil Ambedkar, a sanitation worker from the outskirts of Mumbai, is part of a group of 2,700 contract workers who were recently made permanent employees […]
Despite Maharashtra government’s resolution that cases against dalits will be taken back, the state police have begun filing chargesheets and sending extrenment orders. Giving a go-by to the Maharashtra government’s resolution that cases against dalits implicated during and after the […]
With Union Minister for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale bristling at being ignored by the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra, the Congress and the NCP are rolling out the red carpet for him. Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil said the secular coalition […]
TISS director Shalini Bharat, students union president Jit Hazarika, SC/ST cell officer Avatthi Ramaiah and dean of student affairs Asha Banu Soletti have also been named in the complaint. Last week, some of the five faculty members from the Tata […]
The festival, which made its debut in 2016 to pay tribute to Marathi poet, writer and Ambedkarite-Dalit movement activist Vaibhav Chhaya, has grown over the years to become a platform for artists from the Dalit-Bahujan community. Last year, 22 artists […]
In the run-up to the upcoming general elections, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) headed by Prakash Ambedkar will hold a joint mega rally on Saturday with its ally, Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), at Shivaji Park in Dadar. The rally […]
The 1,837-page supplementary chargesheet comprising accusations based on electronic evidence was submitted in the court by ACP Shivaji Pawar. PUNE: Pune police on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet in a special Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) court against five persons — […]
Somnath Waghmare of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is aiming to change the narrative of Dalit victimization in mainstream films through his documentary on the battle The wounds from the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence are still fresh. The […]
