DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 14 March 2020
No end to discrimination against Punjab's Dalit women labourers, says study
Down To Earth Magazine
A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment ...
KL 13L 8527 — tale of an outcast dalit woman
Times of India
Kannur: In 1893, dalit social reformer Ayyankali rode the villuvandi (bullock cart), which the dalits were not allowed to in the feudal Kerala, and created ...
Dalits accuse cops of inaction in Odisha
The New Indian Express
Dalits accuse cops of inaction in Odisha. They demanded stringent action against former IICs of Tirtol and Naugaon police station, accusing the two ...
BJP's move puts spotlight on Dalit leaders
The Hindu
The appointment of L. Murugan as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State unit has kindled the debate whether a Scheduled Caste .
Massive rallies unite Periyarists and Ambedkarites against the BJP in Tamil Nadu
The Caravan
The Dalit leader was on a stage festooned in the blue and red flags of the regional party in a rally at Tiruchirappalli, on 22 February. “They tell you this ...
Bhim Army chief to launch new party on Kanshi Ram' anniv
Daily Pioneer
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad 'Ravan' is set to launch a political party representing Dalit community on the birth anniversary of Bahujan ...
Women getting less wages compared to men
The New Indian Express
GUNTUR: Dalit Sthree Sakthi conducted a conference on 'Shramik Women Livelihood Opportunities' at Guntur on Thursday and Tobacco Board ...
Protest against transfer of tahsildar
The Hindu
Members of Dalit and pro-Kannada organisations took out a protest march from Town Hall Circle to the Deputy Commissioner's office in Tumakuru on ...
India wins appeal to keep Ambedkar memorial open in UK
Outlook India
The council, on the other hand, presented expert witnesses to try and establish that the Dalit rights activist''s association with the particular London .
Brahmins on India's elite campuses say studying science is natural to upper castes: Study
ThePrint
Available data show few scientists from the Dalit and other marginalised sections in most of the leading Indian scientific and technical educational ...
4 days after TN woman abducted for inter-caste marriage, police yet to rescue her
The News Minute
... was allegedly kidnapped in Salem by her kin for marrying a Dalit man. ... its vilification of inter-caste love and for fanning caste hatred against Dalits, ...
Private sector quota: Will bring law in 59 days, says Dushyant
Hindustan Times
Ajay attacked the Congress and termed it an anti-Dalit party for denying Rajya Sabha nomination to outgoing Dalit MP Kumari Selja. “Earlier they ...
Marching with the Maoists
CounterPunch
Like the Dalit caste, the forest people of India are considered less than human by ... Indeed, the Naxalites are composed mostly of Dalits and Adivasis.
2BHK project totals 10 crore sft housing space
The Hindu
SC Development Minister Koppula Eashwer said the three-acre land for landless Dalit families was a continuous affair and the government has so far ...
Deepender Hooda file nomination for RS from Haryana
Outlook India
Though state Congress president Selja, a Dalit face of the party in the state and close to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was expected to be sent ...
TDP candidate files nomination for RS polls in AP
Outlook India
The TDP stands no chance of winning even one seat as it has only 23 MLAs but it nevertheless chose to field its candidate, playing the Dalit card.
Fanonian Reading of Daya Pawar's Baluta
NewsClick
It makes us realise the complexity of our victimhood; both dalit and savarna. Baluta rejects the ontology of dalits artificially constructed by a brahmanical ...
Sarpanch's husband booked for casteist slur
Times of India
Rajkot: Husband of a woman sarpanch in Samadhiyala village of Botad taluka was booked on Friday for allegedly hurling casteist slurs at a Dalit man ...
Bhim Army to launch political party in Delhi on Sunday
United News of India
Lucknow, Mar 13 (UNI) Another dalit political outfit in Uttar Pradesh would come to an existence on Sunday after the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) was ...
In coronavirus times, it's goodbye handshake, welcome 'namaste'
Livemint
But a Brahmin, for instance, would never offer a 'namaste' to a Dalit. After a boost through the spread of yoga several decades earlier, the traditional ...
Rajya Sabha polls: Spotlight on Madhya Pradesh
Deccan Herald
In Andhra Pradesh, the TDP, despite having no chance to win a seat, has pushed a candidate playing the Dalit card to muddy the political waters, but ...
IOK leaders pledge to face fascist Hindu onslaught
Kashmir Media Service
... and Kashmir Mission for Lok Adhikar (Joint Forum of Dalit organisations), ... face the fascist and repressive Hindu onslaught on minorities and Dalits.
Parliament proceedings | Give voter bonds instead of electoral bonds, says Rajeev Gowda
The Hindu
Almost 1 out of every three government schools make Dalit children sit separately, he says. 2 pm | Lok Sabha. Congress govts presented separate rail ...
Amaravati: No candidates for TDP, says Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy
The Hans India
If it was a winning seat, Naidu would have fielded his son but he chose a Dalit member Varla Ramaiah as it was a losing seat, he added. Show Full ...
Yapalguda land losers' Godot wait for the promised benefits
The Hindu
During the acquisition process the government had promised to allocate three acres to the dalit farmers under the land purchase scheme besides ...
Coronavirus: Ramdas Athawale's post making people smile amid COVID-19 fear
Deccan Herald
A Dalit activist, poet and humorist, Athawale is the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in the Narendra Modi government. Last week ...
QChennai: 3 Test Labs for Coronavirus Now; 90 Flights Cancelled
The Quint
On 9 March, she married 25-year-old P Selvan, a Dalit man from Kavunthapadi in the same district. Their self-respect wedding ceremony took place at ...
Detention of Farooq Abdullah should have ended long ago: Rajeev Shukla
ANI News
... that defeat is inevitable, TDP has fielded Varla Ramaiah, a Dalit leader. ... to highlight that ruling "YSRCP ignored Dalits in the Rajya Sabha polls".
'CAA won't take away anybody's citizenship': In Kapil Sibal, Modi-Shah find the backing they never ...
Financial Express
And this is not just against Muslims, it is against the poor, Dalit and everyone,” Sibal said. The comments by Sibal drew immediate clarification from the ...
'Miss Gulab Jaan' staged at Ravindra Bhavan
Daily Pioneer
... professional and social conflicts in her life as an artist, a dalit woman, lover, wife, mother; a single woman in a profession dominated by men.
Discrimination impedes justice for India's manual scavengers
UCAN
Church leaders and social activists in India have decried discrimination against Dalits and poor people after federal government statistics tabled in ...
