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Daily update ⋅ 23 February 2020
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'Reported as video went viral': Rajasthan Dalit man violated with screwdriver
Hindustan Times
The 23-year-old Dalit man from Rajasthan's Nagaur district ,who was beaten up and violated with a petrol-laced screwdriver by a group of Rajputs, ...
Rajasthan: Days after a man was sexually tortured and assaulted, three Dalit youths brutally ...
OpIndia
As per reports, in a viral video some people belonging to upper caste could be seen beating up three Dalit youths were beaten up in Rama village ...
Dalit shot by MP foresters, kin allege caste crime
The Hindu
Just as the village's roads, shops, playgrounds and trees are all split along caste hierarchies, a mutual pact forbids a Dalit from drawing water from ...
Dalit Hindu saint Valmiki's portrait to find place in VHP's Ram Temple procession in March
Deccan Herald
A picture of dalit Hindu saint Valmiki, who authored the Ramayana in Sanskrit will find its place along with that Lord Ram and Ram Janmabhoomi ...
Dalit groups demand stringent action in Nagaur torture case
The Hindu
After a political storm over the torture of two Dalit youths in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, Dalit groups here on Saturday demanded stringent action ...
Women held for Kashmir, Dalit, Muslim mukti poster taken away by Bengaluru police
HW News English (blog)
When questioned if she would be arrested, the Commissioner said let the investigation be held. “It is too early as she has just been taken into custody,”.
Activists seek security for Nagaur Dalit victims
Times of India
Jaipur: A fact-finding team of Dalit activists has demanded security for the two persons who were beaten, humiliated and sodomised in Nagaur on ...
'We still live in fear': Dalit family alleges mob attack led by local TRS leader
The News Minute
The Dalit family alleges that their 18 guntas of patta land are under the threat of land grabbing by dominant castes on the pretext of safeguarding the ...
Rajasthan: Dalit youth's head tonsured, beaten up for meeting 'upper caste' girl
Times Now
Jodhpur: In spite of various campaigns against caste discrimination, there seems to be no end to caste malaise in our society. In a shameful incident, ...
Literature does not need caste politics; it goes beyond that, says writer Poomani
The Hindu
Vekkai is not a Dalit novel. It centres on the agony of a teenage boy and in my book I have not given the boy a caste identity. The idea of a Dalit identity ...
'Denied' visit to Mangta village, Chandrashekhar Azad meets injured Dalits in Kanpur hospital
Yahoo India News
FOUR DAYS after opposition parties raised the issue of alleged atrocities against Dalits in Mangta village of Kanpur Dehat in the state Assembly, ...
Dalits, OBCs must get key to power: Maya
Hindustan Times
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday targeted the BJP government at the centre, saying like the Congress earlier, it too was giving a “slow ...
In Shivpuri, access to water riven by caste
The Hindu
As with territories — roads, shops, playgrounds and trees — split among groups, a mutual pact forbids a Dalit person from drawing water from gushing ...
Ugly truth of caste in India - Casteist slur
Nagaland Post
Two young Dalits were subjected to the onslaught of a group of casteist mind-set in Rajasthan. This horrific incident happened on the 16th of February, ...
Former MLA accuses BJP of trying to influence SC
The Hindu
Saying that anti-Dalit verdicts are being passed because there are not enough Dalits in the judiciary, Mr. Algur demanded reservation in judiciary for ...
High alert in Meerut zone ahead of Bharat Bandh today
Times of India
Meerut: Police in Meerut zone are leaving no stone unturned to prevent any untoward incident on the occasion of Bharat Bandh called by Dalit outfit, ...
Bengaluru student activists rally around Ardra, detained for holding a 'liberation' poster
The News Minute
Ardra, whose preferred pronouns are they/their, had held a poster that said, "Muslim, Dalit, Kashmiri, Bahujan Adivasi, Trans liberation now," in ...
Gujarat: Una victims now issue lion alerts to save cows
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: Two of the four Dalit men who were battered and paraded half-naked in Una for skinning a cow killed by a lion have now started a big ...
RSS's standardised Hinduism – Part 4
Economic Times (blog)
This mistake has cost the Dalit community hugely since most believe even today that it was intended for them. Sanjay Sonawani has persuasively ...
Potus' visits mean zilch for this labourer
The Asian Age
Hyderabad: It was a 'Peepli Live' moment for a Dalit labourer, Ramdas Ahirwar, when the media flocked to him for interviews after he met the then US ...
Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh condemns Nagaur incident, says Rajasthan govt should ...
ANI News
... Feb 22 (ANI): Congress chief whip in Lok Sabha Kodikunnil Suresh on Friday condemned the "brutal violence and assault against two Dalit youths" ...
Anti-CAA arrests: Home Minister calls meeting of senior police officers today
The Hindu
After Amulya was arrested for sloganeering, Ardra returned to her paying guest accommodation and made the placard that read “Muslim, Dalit, ...
Students,girls being used to create unrest:Karnataka Minister
Outlook India
... were arrested recently in separate cases for raising pro-Pakistan slogans at an anti-CAA event and holding a "Kashmir Mukti (liberation), Dalit Mukti, ...
Gujarat: Three 'biased' teachers of Upleta school shunted
Times of India
Vijay Solanki, a local Dalit leader said, “The DEO should also start a departmental inquiry against these three teachers and take strong action like .
Telangana police under fire for “illegal” cordon and search
Wink Report (press release) (blog)
Request @UIDAI & @TelanganaPolice to tell us how many of those 127 listed people are Muslim & Dalit@TelanganaPolice please stop asking for
Dalitality: Inherent untouchability in planning for SC/STs
Yahoo India News
Yet another major hurdle is the gross negligence of Dalit and Adivasi women's development, which is critical to empowerment of the community.
Opposition parties allege forcible land acquisition
The Hindu
Opposition parties have alleged that the government is forcibly acquiring lands of Dalits and converting tank lands and those of D. Patta as layouts for ...
Yadavendra Singh
Outlook India
The festival witnessed book launches, exploring identities such as being Dalit and queer, issues related to lesbians and bisexual women in rural India, ...
New Delhi: Aarakshan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti holds protest march over SC reservation verdict ...
SocialNews.XYZ
New Delhi:Dalit leaders under Aarakshan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti take out a protest rally against the Supreme Court's provision of reservation in ...
Mahanadi river bed looted by sand mafia, administration silent
The New Indian Express
He also accused them of levelling anti-dalit remarks against his mother. However, refuting the charge, Swain said a few beneficiaries of Indira Awas ...
RSS understood art and culture are 'political' and that's why it called itself a 'cultural' body
National Herald
You are a Brahmin writing about Dalit mridangam makers. You will be benefitting from telling the tales of Dalits. How will it change their lives and how ...
Bengaluru: I went out to support friend Amulya Leona, arrested graphic designer tells police
Times of India
Ardra, 24, held a banner with the message: "Muslim, Dalit, Kashmiri, Bahujan, Adivasi, Trans Liberation Now". She has reportedly told the SJ Park ...
