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A Kumaoni Dalit is singing Qawwali in Delhi, won’t let folk music trap him in his caste now
arun Posted On September 24, 2022


Ten years ago, a 16-year-old Dalit teen from Kumaon left his home because his father refused to buy him a harmonium for his qawwali career. Folk music just wasn’t cutting it anymore for this Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan fan. Today, […]


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Dalit discrimination case: TN police bars accused from entering village
arun Posted On September 23, 2022


The case involved a shopkeeper refusing to sell sweets to a group of Dalit children. The Tamil Nadu police has passed externment orders against three caste Hindus arrested for promoting caste-based discrimination in an incident in mid-September where a shopkeeper […]


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Tamil Nadu Minister Ponmudy Asks Dalit Panchayat Chairman About Her Caste On Stage, Draws Ire
arun Posted On September 22, 2022


Chennai: Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy entered a controversy after he openly asked a panchayat union chairperson about the caste she belonged to and how the DMK government has led to the appointment of an oppressed woman while […]


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TN woman refuses to rent out flat to SC, booked
arun Posted On September 20, 2022


Chennai, Sep 20: A woman has been booked for refusing to rent out a flat to a Scheduled Caste (SC) man in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district. Madurai Veeran of Arasapillaipatti village approached Lakshmi and Velusamy, for renting a residential flat […]


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Police invoke provision of SC / ST Act that denies perpetrators’ entry into troubled village
arun Posted On September 19, 2022


Perhaps for the first time, the police have invoked one of the provisions of SC / ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 to take on the perpetrators of Paanjaankulam in the district where the Scheduled Caste have allegedly been ostracised […]


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‘Won’t Sell to You’: Tamil Nadu Shopkeeper Denies Selling Candy to Dalit Kids; Held, Shop Sealed
arun Posted On September 19, 2022


The Tenkasi police has arrested Maheswaran, a shopkeeper for refusing to sell snacks and candies to Scheduled Caste children. The district administration sealed the shop and cancelled his license. Police said that a group of Scheduled Caste children approached Maheswaran […]


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Tamil Nadu: Shopkeeper, village head arrested for barring Dalit children from buying candy
arun Posted On September 18, 2022


Two persons were arrested in Tamil Nadu’s Tenkasi district on Saturday after a video on social media showed that one of them, a shopkeeper, refused to sell candy to children from the Dalit community, ANI reported, citing the district collector. […]


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Tenkasi Caste Issues: Snacks Refusal To Dalit Students By Shopkeeper
arun Posted On September 17, 2022


A village called Panchakulam near Sankaran temple in the Tenkasi district is now more in talks on social media. There has been a problem between the two communities in this village for the last two years. In this regard, both […]


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Why is Yogendra Yadav in the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’? Swaraj India leader explains
arun Posted On September 12, 2022


Why is former psephologist and political activist Yogendra Yadav, till recently a vocal critic of the Congress, part of the 3,750 Km-walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir? On the fourth day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, mainstream media turned its attention […]


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Two ‘padayatras’ and a ‘rath yatra’ that pale before the Bharat Jodo Yatra
arun Posted On September 12, 2022


LK Advani’s ‘rath’ was a converted Toyota with a fridge sofa and chairs in an airconditioned cabin. He and his companions, among them Narendra Modi, would retire at night to five-star hotels Congress leader Rahul Gandhi continues with his Bharat […]


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