ALMORA: In Salt, Almora district, 27-year-old Vikram Kumar, employee of a private firm in Himachal Pradesh, had set out with his baraat of around 50 people to the wedding venue when he was asked to get off the horse he […]
Irate villagers gheraoed the Dhurki block office in Jharkhand for nearly five hours on Wednesday to protest the beating of a Dalit villager allegedly by the block development officer, a day after rights defenders protested before the Raj Bhavan in […]
New Delhi: In protest against the hate speeches made at Dharma Sansad in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar, a prominent scholar and founder of Ittehad-e-Millat Council has urged Muslims across Uttar Pradesh will gather in large numbers at the ground today for a […]
Sunita Devi, a Dalit woman, secured a job of bhojanmata (caretaker of meals) in Uttrakhand’s Champawat district’s inter-school. However, on 21 December 2021, she was fired alleging a wrongful appointment after upper-caste students refused to eat food prepared by her. […]
Dehradun, on the one hand, where big claims are made to give equal rights to women and backwards in the society, on the other hand, even in today’s modern era, many women and backwards are falling prey to social orthodoxy. […]
Pithoragarh: Dalit bhojanmata (cook) Sunita Devi, who was dismissed from a school in Champawat over “irregularities in her appointment”, and subsequently reinstated on Friday after a meeting between parents and the school management, said that she will take back the […]
Police have lodged a case against 31 people for issuing threats and making casteist comments against the Dalit cook in Uttarakhand. Pithoragarh: A Dalit woman cook was reappointed at a Champawat school in Uttarakhand, days after she was sacked as […]
PITHORAGARH: Days after a row erupted over the removal of Sunita Devi, a Dalit bhojanmata (cook), from the government inter-college at Sukhidang village in Uttarakhand’s Champawat after several upper caste students refused to have the meal prepared by her, the […]
Pithoragarh: Champawat district officials are exploring possibilities of reinstating the Dalit bhojanmata (cook) who was dismissed from the Government Inter College of Sukhidang village on grounds of ‘irregularities in employment’ soon after several upper case students refused to eat the […]
Many school students protested Sunita Devi being removed for being a Dalit cook in Uttarakhand by not eating food made by her Brahmin replacement. BY ARVIND KUMAR Can boycotts be an effective strategy to fight against untouchability in India? This […]
