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08-30-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 30 August 2020

Nitish wants new Dalit faces ahead of polls after constant LJP attacks and minister's exit
ThePrint
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar wants to counter the charges of neglecting Dalits, and so the party is looking for fresh Dalit faces to field in the state polls, JDU ...

TDP chief demands high-level probe into Dalit suicide, asks DGP to check call lists of Om Pratap's ...
Times Now
... AP Director General of Police to order a high-level inquiry to nab the persons who forced Dalit youth Om Pratap to commit suicide in Chittoor district.

Dalit man murdered in Vijayapura village
The New Indian Express
A 28-year-old Dalit man was allegedly murdered by uppercaste men for sitting with them in front of a temple in Budihal village near Sindagi in ...

Dalit youth complains of tonsuring by ex-boss in Vizag; case filed against Bigg Boss fame Nutan ...
Mumbai Mirror
A 20-years-old Dalit youth complained of being tonsured at the behest of his previous master in Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh on Friday.

20-year-old Dalit youth 'tonsured' in Andhra
The New Indian Express
20-year-old Dalit youth 'tonsured' in Andhra. In a complaint lodged with the Pendurthi police, the youth said the house owner asked him to come to his ...

Taking On Beef Mafia: How Three Dalit Men Were Falsely Accused Of Rape Attempt For Tipping ...
Swarajya
In Bihar's Begusarai district, three Dalit men were falsely accused of rape attempt after they tipped off police about illegal cow slaughter in their area.

Dalit man alleges assault by family members of film producer in Andhra
ANI News
ANI | Updated: Aug 29, 2020 11:58 IST. Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 29 (ANI): A "Dalit" man has alleged that he was harassed ...

YSRCP govt and Andhra police trying to cover up atrocities against Dalits: TDP chief
BW Businessworld
Naidu demanded that police disclose details of call lists and records in the cell phone of Punganur Dalit youth Om Pratap whose death was under ...

Dalits beaten up during row over irrigating field
The New Indian Express
NAGAPATTINAM: Five Dalits were beaten up by a caste Hindu family on Thursday after clashes broke out between the two over irrigating their fields, ...

Visakhapatnam: Filmmaker Nutan Naidu tonsured dalit's head
The Hans India
Visakhapatnam: In a wierd incident, filmmaker Nutan Naidu tonsured a Dalit youth's head at the former's residence. Karri Srikanth, a 20-year old, SC, ..

Dalit couple publicly shamed in UP's Mainpuri over affair, three arrested
Times of India
AGRA: A dalit widow and a man, also belonging to the same community, were publicly humiliated by fellow villagers — by tonsuring their heads, ...

Punjab minister says any agency can probe him after secretary indicts him in scholarship scam
ThePrint
Chandigarh: Cornered over allegations of misappropriation of post-matric scholarship funds meant for Dalit students, Punjab Social Welfare Minister ...

'Aashram' series review: An effective but conflicting commentary on the failings of faith
The New Indian Express
Ujagar is the cop who advises those Dalit people to not file a case of ... Now, this same series talks about how the blatant oppression of Dalits is going ...

Persistent prejudices
Millennium Post
A fifteen-year-old girl from a Dalit family plucks a flower from the backyard of a family, the act is found unpardonable. The anger simmers amongst the ...

Poetry from the Grassroots
SheThePeople
Dalit and Adivasi women are two of the many such vital voices in the poetic landscape, that are now using poetry to speak of their lifestyle and struggle.

A Life In Translation: How Mini Krishnan Opened New Worlds For Readers
HuffPost India
She invited Dalit editors and advisors to check her edits and selections to ensure accuracy. The English translation of Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode ...

Actor Krishnudu accused of rape, denies allegations
Times of India
... with the Panjagutta police station and reported by several media outlets, a Dalit woman accused the 45-year-old actor of raping her a few years ago.

Supreme Court upholds reservation for Arundhatiyars in Tamil Nadu, and the State governments ...
Frontline
Some sections of Dalits, including the Puthiya Thamizhagam, a Dalit political party, opposed it and went to court challenging the decision. O.

Rahul Gandhi To Address Virtual Rallies In Poll-bound Bihar Amid Chaos In Congress Party
Republic World
Manjhi's step to quit Mahagathbandhan also comes days after former JDU Dalit leader Shyam Rajak joined RJD. READ | SC dismisses PIL for ...

08-29-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 29 August 2020

TDP leaders under house arrest for protest against alleged Dalit atrocities
Hindustan Times
Om Pratap, a Dalit auto rickshaw driver, died by suicide at his home in ... as a rallying point to protest against the alleged atrocities against Dalits in the ...

Multi-crore Dalit scholarship scam: Punjab cabinet minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot faces political ...
Times of India
He said it was a huge scam which directly affected the future of Dalit students. “It was quite surprising, the minister instead of denying his involvement is ...

Uttar Pradesh: AAP to educate brother of Dalit girl who died due to hunger and sickness
Times of India
A large number of Dalit families in the village have no ration card and are not benefited under any government scheme. District administration should ...

Who is Mahatma Ayyankali: The Dalit leader whom PM Modi praised today
Oneindia
... who are today referred to as Dalits. Ayyankali was the first of eight children born to Ayyan and Mala, who were members of the Pulayar community of ...

Seeking Reservation Rejig: Dalit Law Student Writes to SC on Exclusion of 'Creamy Layer' from ...
News18
... of caste-based reservation avail the advantage instead of those who have "reaped benefits for generations", a Madhya Pradesh Dalit law student is ...

3 per cent sub-quota for Arunthathiyars to continue
The New Indian Express
One of the most marginalised sub-sections among Dalits in the State, ... Since then, all political parties barring Puthiya Thamizhagam – a Dalit party ...

SC order could give a boost to introduction of 'creamy layer' among SCs/STs
Times of India
The looming possibility of sub-categorisation of Dalits coupled with the ... It may in the long run dismantle Dalit politics at the national and even state ...

Tributes pour in for anti-caste revolutionary Ayyankali on his birth anniversary
The News Minute
Ayyankali himself belonged to the Dalit Pulaya caste. ... militantly opposed caste practices, fought for the rights of farm workers, built schools for Dalits, ...

NSA against man for rape-murder
Times of India
BAREILLY: A day after a TOI report on the rape and murder of an 18-year-old Dalit girl in a UP town, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ...

Nitish Kumar unable to create jobs for labourers returning to Bihar in lockdown: Pappu Yadav
Newsd.in
... himself to be a leader of backward castes who supports the ideology of Dalit leaders like Jitan Ram Manjhi, Chirag Paswan and Meira Kumar.

'This appeal is devoid of merits,' Bombay High Court rejects bail plea by Elgar Parishad accused ...
OpIndia
In the war, an army of Dalit soldiers had fought under the British forces against the Peshwa, the reason for the celebration by Dalits. In 2018, it was the ...

UP starvation death: AAP to take care of bereaved family
Newsd.in
Singh further alleged that a large number of Dalit families in the same village have no ration card and are not benefitting from any government scheme.

Jitan Ram Manjhi meets Nitish Kumar days after quitting grand alliance, sets off speculation of ...
Financial Express
Mahadalits and Dalits comprise nearly 16% of Bihar's 10 crore population. Meanwhile, reports say that the HAM wants to contest 15-20 seats with the ...

UP CM calls for invoking NSA against Lakhimpur Kheri rape-murder accused; NHRC issues notice
Yahoo India News
“The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that the Dalit girl was found raped and murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh after ...

Sweeper's Lane row : Sub-committee submits report to Meghalaya Dy CM
United News of India
the report of a sub-committee to relocate Dalit Sikhs from Sweeper's Lane to the High Level Committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister Prestone ...

Former union min Srinivas Prasad recoveres from COVID-19, discharged
United News of India
Many Prasad supporters had offered special prayers at temples for the well being of their prominent Dalit leader. Please log in to get detailed story.

Religion, caste, politics- MX Player's Aashram is a social commentary that should not be missed
India Today
While the Dalits are not easily bogged down, thanks to young wrestler Pammi who refuses to allow this blatant injustice to happen, the upper castes ...

Andhra HC grants bail to TDP MLA K Atchannaidu in ESI scam case
The News Minute
Teams have been formed to arrest the remaining accused in the case. With IANS inputs. READ: AP Police register case in the suspicious death of a Dalit ...

Pro-Kannada outfits condemn attack on Kannadigas
citytoday
Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) president Aravind Sharma, Dhanpal Kurubarahalli, Dalit activist K S Shivaramu, Rajya Nayakara Hitharakshana ...

08-28-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 28 August 2020

TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu seeks probe into Dalit suicide
The New Indian Express
TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu seeks probe into Dalit suicide. The TDP chief said it was saddening to witness the spurt in attacks on Dalits under ...

What is Similar Between India and Nepal? Dalit Atrocities
NewsClick
The recent Rukum case in Nepal echoes the rampant caste violence in India. The region needs a new dalit narrative to imagine a better future. Kalyani, ...

ABVP activists detained for protesting against Dalit woman's rape, let off
BW Businessworld
ABVP unequivocally condemns the rape and prolonged sexual exploitation of the 25-year-old Dalit woman, at the National Conference of SFI, from ...

In UP village where 5-year-old died of hunger, 2000 Dalit families don't have ration cards
Times of India
AGRA: Of the 5,000 families who live in the gram panchayat where a five-year-old died with no food, 2,000 families — all Dalit — do not have ration ...

Three women of dalit family assaulted in Puri
United News of India
Puri,Aug 27 (UNI) Three women of a dalit family of village Bhutapada under the Balanga police station limits were severely assaulted by some ...

UP: Dalit girl raped and murdered was 1st-generation learner in family
Times of India
BAREILLY: An 18-year-old Dalit girl who was found raped and murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri after she stepped out to fill a scholarship form online as ...

Yogi announces Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia for family of Dalit girl, raped and killed in Lakhimpur Kheri
United News of India
... action against the accused in the rape and murder of a Dalit girl in Lakhimpur Kheri recently and announced a Rs 5 lakh compensation to the family.

Govt officials failing to ensure justice for Dalit victims: UP SC/ST Commission member
Devdiscourse
Naik's outburst against the prevailing state of affairs apparently got triggered when the issue of financial compensation to Dalit victims under the ...
Chhattisgarh DME at large after dalit woman files rape case
Times of India
RAIPUR: Two days after Chhattisgarh police booked former director of medical education (DME) for allegedly raping a Dalit woman, police on ...

Punjab: AAP protests outside minister's residence in Nabha
Times of India
They demanded that the Dalit and anti-poor ministers like Sadhu Singh should be sacked from the cabinet and they should be arrested immediately.

6 held for attacking Dalits with acid in Jhansi village
Times of India
6 held for attacking Dalits with acid in Jhansi village. Arindam Ghosh | TNN | Updated: Aug 27, 2020, 10:47 IST. TimesPoints. 80. 0 Added. Visit TOI ...

If people don't fight discrimination based on caste, they promote it
Times of India
... the national flag by her fellow office-bearers because she was a dalit. ... and discrimination, whether against dalits or any other oppressed groups.

Gujarat: Police Complaint Against Tribal Man for Performing Father's Last Rites on Road
The Wire
Also read: When Will India's Educational Institutes Have Their 'Dalit Lives Matter' Moment? Meanwhile, tension grew between Halapatis and other ...

Opposition attacks Nitish for virtual rally
Times of India
He does not like to be surrounded by such people and hence by virtual rallies he is skipping meeting poor people,” said Rajak, calling Nitish anti-Dalit.

6 held for acid attack on Dalits in Jhansi
The Hans India
6 held for acid attack on Dalits in Jhansi. IANS | 27 Aug 2020 12:45 PM IST. SHARE. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter ...

Uttar Pradesh: 6 held for acid attack on Dalits in Jhansi
Newsd.in
Uttar Pradesh: 6 held for acid attack on Dalits in Jhansi. According to reports, there are only two hand pumps in Basaar village. The incident took place ...

Kitchen to Library: Author Manoranjan Byapari's Dream to Work among Books Finally Takes Off
News18
Popular Dalit author, Manoranjan Byapari, not only wrote novels like Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit and There's ...

Youth attempts self immolation in Rajkot, rescued
Times of India
Rajkot: A 23-year-old Dalit youth attempted self immolation outside University police station on Tuesday night. Police said Ravi Vadher had poured ...

Elgar Parishad Case: NIA Summons Three Lawyers for Questioning
The Wire
... case had begun in June 2018, with the arrests of Sudhir Dhawale, a writer and Mumbai-based Dalit rights activist, Surendra Gadling, a UAPA expert ...

Another girl raped, murdered in Uttar Pradesh
Free Press Journal
Days after a gangrape and murder of a dalit girl, another minor was raped and murdered in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, the police ...

08-27-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 27 August 2020

Social boycott of Dalit families: Odisha Rights panel takes cognizance, seeks report from officials
The Indian Express
The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of 40 Dalit families facing social boycott from upper caste villagers in ...

Jitan Ram Manjhi calls Lalu anti-Dalit as HAM looks set to join NDA in Bihar
Deccan Chronicle
"It is a fact that he (Lalu Yadav) is a real villain as he cannot see any Dalit leader growing. He played a key role in my removal as Chief Minister in ...

18-year-old Dalit girl abducted, three booked
Times of India
Pilibhit: Three brothers were booked on Monday evening for allegedly abducting an 18-year-old Dalit girl from her house in a village under Jahanabad ...

Uttar Pradesh: Dalit girl raped and murdered; body found dumped & eaten by animals
Times Now
Uttar Pradesh: An 18-year-old Dalit girl who went out to fill an online education for school was found raped and murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri.

UP: 'Missing' Dalit girl, 18, found dead, body partially eaten by wild animals
Times of India
UP: 'Missing' Dalit girl, 18, found dead, body partially eaten by wild animals. Kanwardeep Singh | TNN | Updated: Aug 26, 2020, 10:26 IST ...
Regardless of who you are, excesses against Dalits won't be tolerated: Andhra CM Jagan warns ...
The New Indian Express
VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday said the state government will not tolerate any excesses by the police against Dalits.

Discrimination against dalit panchayat chief: SHRC seeks report
Times of India
COIMBATORE: Based on a TOI report on discrimination against a DMK dalit woman panchayat president in the district that was published on August ...

Controversial UP BJP MLA's daughter set to join Samajwadi Party
Times of India
... from Bithri Chainpur constituency-- had a face- off with her father last year when she went against his wishes and married the Dalit youth, Ajitesh.

America faces new civil rights struggle in caste system
Times of India
Since it broke, Dalit civil rights group Equality Labs has received more than 300 complaints of caste-based discrimination in companies across the ...

No one will be spared in SCs/STs cases, asserts Jagan
The Hans India
... the Chief Minister said this was not the case during the previous regime when the government used to overlook atrocities against Dalits and other ...

Protest against defacement of Sangolli Rayanna statue
citytoday
... the statue of Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna, the members of Kuruba Sangha, Dalit unions, Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagruta Vedike, ...

Mayawati back to playing caste card in UP
Newsd.in
According to party sources, senior BSP leader Gayacharan Dinkar, who belongs to the Dalit community, will visit the spot in the cases of crime against ...

NTA Refuses To Postpone NEET, JEE; Another Rape In UP + More Top News
India Times
In a second case in the past 10 days from Lakhimpur Kheri in UP, a 17-year-old Dalit girl who had stepped out to fill the scholarship application was ...

'Staged' abduction case: Newlywed woman testifies against kidnappers in court
Hindustan Times
The woman comes from a poor Dalit family, while the miscreants belong to the upper caste. However, her parents alleged that they had given a police ...

SHRC notice to Coimbatore police chief on abuse of boy
Yahoo India News
... Rajamani seeking within three weeks a report on a complaint from a Dalit woman, who was a panchayat president of J Krishnapuram in the district, ...

For Patna being the dirtiest in India, the blame is on all—from Lalu Yadav to Nitish Kumar
ThePrint
... lives of people — MY (Muslim-Yadav) combination, backward vs most backward, Dalit vs most Dalit, Hindu vs Muslim, Ram Mandir, Article 370 etc.

Sahitya Akademi winner documents disappearing legacy of Anna Bhau Sathe's Loknatya theatre
The Indian Express
... travelling through the interiors of Maharashtra in search of old people who had known Dalit literary stalwart Anna Bhau Sathe in the 1940s and'50s.

Here's how anorexia may stunt young women's growth
Hindustan Times
... corresponding author, Dalit Modan-Moses, M.D., of The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, in Tel Hashomer, ...

NDA will win 220 seats in Bihar polls: Union minister
Times of India
While supporting Jitan Ram Manjhi, who recently quit the grand alliance, Rai said the former CM rightly stated that RJD had always been anti-Dalit ...

08-26-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 26 August 2020

40 Dalit families face social boycott in Odisha's Dhenkanal district
Telangana Today
According to the villagers, the girl belonging to Dalit community had plucked the flowers two months ago. The girl's parents also apologized and begged ...

Odisha: 40 Dalit Families Deprived of Essentials and PDS for 2 Weeks, Police Yet to Register FIR
NewsClick
In Odisha's Dhenkanal district, a dalit girl's act of plucking flowers from the backyard of an upper caste family over two months ago has led to the social ...

Jammu Dalit sarpanch resigns after facing casteist abuse, threats for fighting corruption
The Caravan
On 18 July 2020, Kamlesh Bhagat, a Dalit sarpanch of Pochhal A-2 panchayat in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, resigned from her post.

DMK's dalit woman panchayat chief alleges discrimination
Times of India
Coimbatore: Days after discrimination against a dalit panchayat president in Tiruvannamalai district came to light, another dalit panchayat chief said ...

Out to collect fodder, minor Dalit girl gangraped in Baghpat, two arrested
Times of India
MEERUT: A minor Dalit girl, a student of Class VIII, was allegedly gang-raped by two men when she had gone to collect fodder at the banks of Hindon ...

Khalistani extremist Pannun accused of extorting $15000 from Dalit youth
The Siasat Daily
... Pakistan-sponsored Khalistani extremist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun extorted $15,000 from a Dalit youth from Punjab.

SFJ chief accused of extorting $15000 from Dalit man from Punjab
Times of India
The Dalit youth was sent back to Punjab in December last year. Describing Pannun as a “very deceitful man” Surjit said that he never turned up after he ...

Abuse against dalit woman panchayat president: SHRC issues notice to Coimbatore district collector
Times of India
She lodged a complaint with the Negamam police against a non-dalit man identified as Usilamani alias Balasubramanian, who harassed her. Saridha ...

A Letter to Kangana Ranaut On Caste and Reservation
The Wire
I come from the Dalit community. I'm the first woman in my family with an M.Phil. My parents were manual workers, and my mother continues to be.

40 Dalit families face social boycott in Odisha's Dhenkanal
India TV
Around 40 families, belonging to Dalit community, in Kantio Kateni village of Odisha's Dhenkanal district were allegedly socially boycotted after a girl ...

Uttar Pradesh: Family of Dalit girl who died of hunger and sickness gets ration card
Times of India
AGRA: Days after a five-year-old Dalit girl died of hunger and sickness in Agra's Nagla Vidhichand village, the district administration issued a ration ...
CM Jagan breaks his silence on Dalit tonsure case
Telugu360
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has finally talked about the Dalit tonsure case in the State. In a high level meeting with the ...
NDA will fight Bihar Assembly polls under Nitish's leadership: JP Nadda
Business Standard
Chirag Paswan and his father Ram Vilas Paswan are the among prominent Dalit leaders in Bihar, exerting influence in Hajipur, Saran, Chapra and ...

Kamareddy: Tension in village over dispute over water connection
The Hans India
The BCs refused to give connection to Dalits in the village from the newly constructed water tank. This created anger among the Dalit youth against the ...

Book Review: MotherWit By Urmila Pawar
Feminism in India
She identifies herself as a Dalit, Buddhist feminist and voices her lived experience as one through literature. While Weave of my life: A Dalit Woman's ...

The subaltern and the sanskritised
Times of India
Just like the militant strand of social renaissance that Ayyappan epitomizes, this biography hasn't received close scrutiny by Dalit Bahujan thinkers.

Activist-author Manoranjan Byapari gets dream library job
Times of India
Award winning activist-writer and pioneer of Dalit literature Manoranjan Byapari, can heave a sigh of relief. After years of toiling as a cook at Helen ...

Romanticising Indian villages hides casteism: Telugu Poet Jilukara Srinivas to TNM
The News Minute
Though Dalit poetry was a stage in Telugu literature, a revolutionary and Marxist section has been portrayed as a reactionary trend. They considered it ...

Priyanka slams UP govt, child rights panel asks why family was without ration card
Times of India
The Dalit family did not have a ration card and any source of income.” It told the DM, “The commission has taken cognizance of the matter and is ...

08-24-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 24 August 2020

Anna Bhau matured the purpose of literature to serve the Dalit cause
The Indian Express
Year 2020 is a memorable one in the rich archive of Dalit history. It is the centenary of India's powerful voice, Tukaram Bhaurao alias Anna Bhau Sathe ...

Odisha: Dalit families face social boycott after girl plucks flowers from upper-caste man's garden
Telangana Today
Dhenkanal (Odisha): Around 40 Dalit families were subjected to social boycott for over a fortnight after a 15-year-old girl plucked flowers from the ...

As Bihar Assembly election gets nearer, Dalit politics gathers momentum
Business Standard
The Dalits constitute nearly 16 per cent of the vote and 38 seats are reserved for them in the 243-member Assembly. They have played an important ...

'Starving' and sick, five-year-old dies in UP
Times of India
“There are 274 poor Dalit families in the village who do not have ration cards. I had forwarded their applications but those at the subdivision office ...

'Nitish Kumar Not Pro-Dalit': Ex-Bihar Min Shyam Rajak Back in RJD
The Quint
Rajak said that the pro-dalit image portrayed by CM Nitish Kumar is just pretence and he does not want people to work for the progress of Dalits.

Khalistani extremist Pannun accused of extorting $15000 from Dalit youth
Newsd.in
Khalistani extremist Pannun accused of extorting $15,000 from Dalit youth. By IANS Published on : Sun 23rd August 2020, 07:58 PM.

NEP 'fails' to answer: Why is there higher school dropout among Dalits, tribals, girls?
Kashmir Times
NEP 'fails' to answer: Why is there higher school dropout among Dalits, tribals, girls? By Martin Macwan. Dated: 8/23/2020 12:21:16 AM. The opening ...

36-year-old Kudmul Ranga Rao Girls Hostel Demolished to give Way for Rs 8 Cr New Facility
Mangalorean.com
Dalit girls who are studying in various institutions in the City were deprived of hostel facilities for some time years ago. In the meantime, thousands of ...

UP BJP focuses on women power, balance in new team
Hindustan Times
Neelam Sonker, a Dalit from Azamgarh district, has also been inducted along with Sunita Dayal from Ghaziabad district. Meerut's veteran leader Kanta ...

Sonia Gandhi indicates that she doesn't want to carry on: Sources
Newsd.in
... rounds, especially two Dalit leaders – Mallikarjun Kharge and Sushilkumar Shinde, as likely replacements if Sonia Gandhi doesn't want to continue.

Nadda tells Rajasthan BJP to expose 'useless' Gehlot govt
Newsd.in
Similarly, there has been an increase of 122 per cent in the case of female oppression, 92 per cent rise in cases of Dalit oppression and 101 per cent ...

Kochi: Group empowers marginalized children
Times of India
... founder M Geetanandan, Adishakti Summer School was established in 2014 to stem the dropout rate among dalit and adivasi students in the state.

UP: Two arrested for raping woman co-worker
India Today
The incident took place at Kandhla town in the district. Also read: Honour killing: 22-year-old man murdered by brother in Coimbatore for marrying Dalit ...

Dalit families face social boycott in Odisha after girl plucks flowers from upper-caste man's garden
The News Now
Dhenkanal (Odisha): Around 40 Dalit families were subjected to social boycott for over a fortnight after a 15-year-old girl plucked flowers from the ...

Odisha Village Boycotts All 40 Dalit Families After 15-Yr-Old Girl Plucks Flowers From
Justicenews
In a shocking incident, as many as forty Dalit families in Odisha's Dhenkanal district have been boycotted by the entire village after a minor girl from the ...

Dalit households face social boycott in Odisha after lady plucks flowers from upper-caste man's ...
Today News
Dhenkanal (Odisha), August 23 Around 40 Dalit households had been subjected to social boycott for over a fortnight after a 15-year-old lady plucked.

CM Nitish Kumar is not pro-Dalit: Ex-Bihar Minister who joined RJD
Inshorts
He further said that CM Nitish's pro-Dalit image is just for show. tap for more at The Quint / today. 'Rajak was expelled over anti-party ...

portrayal of women in the selected memoirs of dalit writers thesis submitted to savitribai phule pune ...
Shodhganga
DALIT WRITERS. THESIS. SUBMITTED TO. SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY, PUNE. FOR THE AWARD OF. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PH.

TMC workers attack Dalits of BJP in Bengal; police look on
Sirf News
TMC workers attack Dalits of BJP in Bengal; police look on. One of the nine videos Sirf News received lends credence to the allegation that the police ...

Secret Plan - B under the cover of letters… So Congress in preparation to make Dalit a party ...
Job Vacancy
new DelhiIn-house tussle continues inside the party forward of the Congress Working Committee assembly on Monday in the capital Delhi. Supporters ...

08-23-2020,

DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 23 August 2020

Anthropological Archives
Economic and Political Weekly
This paper revisits earlier ethnographic writing and assumption as an “archive” in order to reconsider Dalit “religions.” It explores the nature of power in ...

Odisha Dalits ostracised for over 3 months for plucking flowers
The New Indian Express
Dalit community members Jyoti Nayak and Prakash Chandra Nayak alleged that they are being barred from village facilities like getting work or buying ...

BMC faces flak as workers 'denied drinking water, access to toilets for being Dalit'
The Indian Express
Milind Ranade, general secretary, Kachra Vahatuk Shramik Sangh, said 350 Dalit workers from JB Nagar motor loading chowki in Andheri (East) ...

Dalit families ostracised in Odisha village after girl plucks flowers from home of upper caste villagers
India Today
While the incident of the innocent girl plucking flowers is two months old, the boycott of Dalits in Kantio Kateni village in Odisha's Dhenkanal district still ...

TN This Week: Caste Fanatics Prevent Dalit Panchayat President from Hoisting National Flag ...
NewsClick
Even as 50% reservation for dalits and women exist in the local bodies across the state, their independence and decision making on administrative front ...

'Trained 5000 Dalits As Priests Across The Country': Vishwa Hindu Parishad
Swarajya
There is a large number of Dalit priests in southern states. In Tamil Nadu alone, 2,500 priests have been trained due to the efforts of the VHP.

Bihar: Mohammad Irfan rapes and impregnates Dalit girl, threatens to kill her
OpIndia
Bihar: Mohammad Irfan rapes and impregnates Dalit girl, threatens to kill her. The police officials have registered a case against the accused ...

NHRC asks Odisha Chief Secretary to address woes of Dalit families
OrissaPOST
The accused demolished the houses of the Dalits constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana-Gramin scheme. The landless families ...

Increasing age of marriage will be exercise of carceral power by state which will disproportionately ...
The Indian Express
... end up criminalising and exacerbating the existing vulnerabilities of Dalit and Adivasi communities in rural India, instead of empowering its women.

Elgar Parishad case: Victims of vendetta
Frontline
Gautam Navlakha and the Dalit rights writer Anand Teltumbde, who happens to be the grandson-in-law of B.R. Ambedkar, surrendered during the ...

Raut: JV cement plant near Khaparkheda power stn soon
Times of India
On being detained at Azamgarh where he went to meet the slain Dalit Sarpanch's family, the minister reiterated that he would soon be meeting ...

The Global Dalit, The Indian Black: Cornel West In Conversation With Suraj Yengde
Outlook India
... and his mentor, the African-American philosopher and public intellectual Cornel West, come from a long and robust tradition of Dalit-Black solidarity.

Media Diary: Why Are There No Dalits In India's Newsrooms?
Outlook India
Every Dalit who steps into the media does so hoping to bring about a big change—“I won't live the life I lived till now. I won't spare caste. I will expose ...

Bengaluru: 'Siddaramaiah fake champion of Dalits'
The Hans India
Bengaluru: Slamming former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, state BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel termed him a "fake champion" of Dalits ...

Scheduled Castes commission cancels order naming 3 Srivastavas to 5-member panel
ThePrint
“We are happy with the development and hope that Dalit scholars, or those working for the welfare of Dalits should be made part of the committee ...

Hafta 290: Facebook's influence and control, Wall Street Journal on Ankhi Das, and Gunjan Saxena
Newslaundry
The panel also discusses the 'survival burden' of Dalits and the exclusion of Dalit voices in national matters, the New Education Policy, and how far has ...

Bengaluru Riots: After 10 days, Twitter apologises to JNU Professor Anand Ranganathan for ...
Free Press Journal
For the uninitiated, a Muslim mob rampaged through Bengaluru's Pulakeshi Nagar on Tuesday night and vandalised Dalit Congress legislator ...

UP Govt Admits 37% of 'Criminals' Killed in Encounters in 3 Years Were Muslims
NewsClick
They want to convey that Muslims and dalits are a threat to national security. Why don't they invoke the NSA against thakurs and pandits when they ...

Ajmer municipal body's tenure comes to an end
Times of India
... has not started any preparation for the elections. Dalit leaders are looking for their wives and relatives to contest the upcoming elections. tnn ...

Bengaluru Buzz: Civil society team to probe DJ Halli violence | Low-key festivities | Rank in ...
Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
The panel includes child rights activist Neena Nayak; independent journalist Cynthia Stephen; Dalit leaders V Nagaraj, Mohanraj and Hebbal ...

dalit families Archives
Arre
In Odisha, 40 Dalit families have been ostracised by the rest of their community, including grocery shop owners, teachers, and potential employers for ...

Dalit Panchayat President petitions SP, demanding action on man for casteist slur at work place
Simplicity
Dalit Panchayat President petitions SP, demanding action on man for casteist slur at work place.

Dalit families ostracised in Odisha village after girl plucks flowers from home of upper caste villagers
Newsdig.in
Social stigma continues to haunt parts of India, including this village in Odisha where as many as 40 Dalit families have been ostracized. They are ..

Dalit families ostracised in Odisha village after girl plucks flowers from home of upper caste villagers
Justdial
Girl caught plucking flower, Odisha village boycotts all 40 Dalit families. 23 hours. Hindustan Times. Maharashtra Dalit youth murdered for 'stalking' ...

4 Name a famous Dalit writer and an autobiography written by him
Brainly.in
... 17 November 2013) was an Indian writer and poet. Well known for his autobiography, Joothan, considered a milestone in Dalit literature. Thanks 0.

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For 70 years, Dalits have been denied freedom of religion – through a presidential order
Scroll.in
These castes are also referred to as Scheduled Castes or Dalits. These Dalit communities were singled out for deserving affirmative action benefits ...

Girl caught plucking flower, Odisha village boycotts all 40 Dalit families
The Indian Express
Forty Dalit families in Kantio Kateni village of Odisha's Dhenkanal district have been subjected to social boycott for the past two weeks after a 15-year-old ...

Azamgarh: First Dalit Village Pradhan in 2 Decades Killed 'to Send a Message of Fear'
The Wire
He was murdered as a mark of the dominance over Dalits and to send each Dalit a message of fear,” he said. Prasad had once served as a havildar in ...

Odisha: Dalit teenage girl caught plucking flower, later kin get deprived of essentials
Mirror Now
Dalit Community in Odisha faces saddening social boycott. In a social inequality report, at least 40 families in the Dhenkanal District of the State have ...

Today is my Independence Day: Dalit chief of Athupakkam panchayat
Times of India
In the delimitation exercise which preceded the polls, Athupakkam panchayat president post was reserved for dalit women. Since Amrutham's victory in ...

Kamal Nath alleges man thrashing Dalit woman in Betul being shielded, asks MP CM to act
India Today
A video posted by Kamal Nath shows a man mercilessly thrashing a Dalit woman in Shobhapur in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district. The Congress leader ...

As Congress reaches out to Dalits, Brahmins in UP, friction comes to the fore
The Indian Express
In the political wilderness for more than three decades, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is trying hard to woo Dalits as well as Brahmins simultaneously ...

State minister Nitin Raut detained in UP on route to meet family of slain Dalit sarpanch
Hindustan Times
Dalits are not safe under chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath rule. Men are brutally killed, while women face atrocities. Neither have the culprits been arrested ...

Jharkhand CM orders probe, action against accused who beat Dalit youths in Chatra
BW Businessworld
"The Chief Minister was informed that in Chatra on Independence Day, two Dalits were accused of mobile theft and beaten brutally while they were ...

How Dalit Woman Leader Asserted Her Right, Hoisted Tricolour
The Quint
... Dalit woman to hoist the tricolour. But on Thursday, Amrutham Amma asserted her equal citizenship – she raised the tricolour at the panchayat office ...

VHP Official: Trained 5000 Dalits as priests
Newsd.in
VHP Official: Trained 5,000 Dalits as priests. VHP National Spokesman Vinod Bansal told IANS that due to the efforts of the organisation, many such ...

Karnataka BJP chief slams Siddaramaiah, calls him 'fake' champion of Dalits, backward classes
BW Businessworld
"Siddaramaiah, the so-called champion of the backward classes and Dalits, is so insensitive he never bothered to visit the residence of those who ...

RJD trio raise Mahadalit pitch, launch scathing attack on JD(U)
Times of India
Without naming Uday Narayan Choudhary, Ashok Choudhary, who is also a Dalit face of the JD(U), said that for the first time, a member of the ...

Ongole: Youth's death in custody sparks row
The Hans India
Ongole: Dalit fronts in the Prakasam district demanded that the government announce ex-gratia for the kin of Peram Venkatrao, who was killed in the ...

BJP pressuring police to implicate Congress: Shivakumar on Bengaluru riots
The New Indian Express
BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Thursday said the Congress and former CM Siddaramaiah do not have any concern for dalits. “Till date ...

'Will hold Muharram events despite coronavirus, arrest if you can': Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad dares ...
OpIndia
... Kalbe Jawad Naqvi had announced that they would conduct camps to assist people from the Muslim and Dalit communities to procure firearms.

Mayawati appeals to all UP legislators to rise above party politics raise issues of public interest
THE WEEK
... of women and killings of members of Dalit, Muslim and Brahmin samaj and other atrocities, meaning the dismal state of law and order in UP. This is ...

Thoothukudi history-sheeter, who hurled country bomb at cop, valourised by caste groups
The New Indian Express
30-year-old Muthu, who was accused of three murders of Dalit men, had hurled a country-made bomb at Subramanian and other police personnel ...

Man held for abusing minor tribal girls in Kerala
Times of India
Vithura station house officer Inspector S Sreejith said that the case was registered based on a complaint filed by dalit activist Dhanya Raman, who ...

Anand Mahindra steps in to help MP boy whose father cycled 106km to get him to exam centre
ThePrint
Also read: Punjab's Dalit topper could get full scholarship from Delhi's Ashoka University. Cycling through challenges. Under the Madhya Pradesh ...

NEP Creates Illusions of Education
The Citizen
... with its tacit support, the trend towards the exclusion of students from Dalit and OBC (Other Backward Class) backgrounds is unmistakable. There is ...

Data: How did the words used in the name of a Political Party evolve in the last 70 years?
Factly
'Bahujan' is used 45 times and 'Dalit' around 10 times. ... of political parties whose goal was ensuring increased political representation of Dalits.

First Dalit Village Pradhan in 2 Decades Killed 'to Send a Message of...
Dailyhunt
He was murdered as a mark of the dominance over Dalits and to send each Dalit a message of fear,' he said. Prasad had once served as a havildar in ...

Kamal Nath alleges man thrashing Dalit woman in Betul being shielded, asks MP CM to act
India Today
A video posted by Kamal Nath shows a man mercilessly thrashing a Dalit woman in Shobhapur in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district. The Congress ...

(i) Elected representatives (ii) Dalit boy (iii)
Brainly.in
(i) Elected representatives (ii) Dalit boy (iii) Rich politicians (iv) None of these​.

Teenager caught plucking flowers; Odisha village boycotts 40 Dalit families
Newsdig.in
DH Web Desk, 40 Dalit families in an Odisha village have been boycotted after a 15-year-old girl from the community plucked a flower from the house ...

Pin by dalit on גפן | Pencil drawings of flowers, Flower drawing, Colorful drawings
Pinterest
Mar 15, 2019 - This Pin was discovered by dalit. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest.

How a Dalit woman leader asserted her right, hoisted tricolour on August 20
PrimeTimes.IN
How a Dalit woman leader asserted her right, hoisted tricolour on August 20. Aug 20, 2020. Amrutham Amma, the president of her panchayat in TN, ...

Manjhi Makes His Move, Is Paswan Next? Bihar Deck Gets Shuffled as Dalit Politics Takes Centre ...
WrapUp
With lower than three months to go for the Bihar meeting elections, there have been main disruptions within the state's Dalit and Mahadalit politics.

If You Have The Courage, RJD Announces To Make A Dalit CM
NewsTree
The minister said that if the RJD was truly friendly towards the Dalits, it should declare the Dalit face as the chief minister. He said that the pulse of RJD ...