A HINDU BY BIRTH, AM I PROUD TO BE A HINDU IN 2020 ? I USED TO BE ONE, AS HINDUISM TO ME WAS A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE SANS AN ESTABLISHMENT RULING OUR LIVES, BUT I AM NOT SO SURE IF I AM A PROUD HINDU NOW IN 2020. TO ME LOVE IS GOD, TRUTH IS GOD AND MY INNER VOICE WE CALL CONSCIENCE IS GOD. I DO NOT WANT ANY MAN BETWEEN ME AND MY GOD. CASTE SYSTEM AND UNTOUCHABILITY IN INDIA HAS TO GO. GOD CREATED ALL HUMAN BEINGS EQUAL.

RAM KRISH

Monday, 30 March 2020

03-29-2020,


DALIT, Daily update ⋅ 29 March 2020

Lockdown impact: In Modi's constituency, Dalit kids forced to eat grass, reporter faces DM's wrath
National Herald
... and inhuman incidents that has come to light during the 21-day lockdown announced by PM Narendra Modi, Musahars – a Dalit community living in ...

Journalist behind story of Dalits eating grass in Varanasi district gets notice
ThePrint
District administration says report is fabricated, DM Kaushal Raj Sharma says Dalits eating 'wild pulses', but journalist stands by story. Prashant ...
Why 'Physical Distancing' Should Replace 'Social Distancing' In Discourse Around Covid-19
Swarajya
Sanjeev Newar, whose organisation Agniveer gives janeu to dalits to end birth-based discrimination, wrote, “Completely agree. In Indian context ...

Long live Shaheen Bagh
New Internationalist
The library was set up by a group to commemorate the fourth death anniversary of Rohith Vemula – a Dalit scholar at the University of Hyderabad ...

'BSP Wants Bahujans Only To Hoist The Party Flag'
Outlook India
It has used the Dalit community only as a vote bank. That's why I had to launch a party for the Dalits and the backward community. What do you think of ...

Bhim Army: Dangerous to Indian sovereignty
MyNation
In case the Dalits are lacking a star, our present President is from the Dalit community. He has fought his own battles to reach the position he is today. No ...

Annual Report 2019
Reliefweb
The IDSN Annual Report 2019-2020 covers key developments and activities within IDSN's work under the thematic areas Dalit women and gender ...

Why India doesn't seem to care about its poor even during a pandemic
Newslaundry
Parlandu was Dalit, as all makers of the mrdangam, a percussion instrument made with cow hide which is integral to Carnatic music, are. He was ...

Does religion matter? Communal violence in India
The Siasat Daily
Among the Hindus arrested, 797 were OBCs, 747 Dalits, 19 Patels, two ... for Hindutva, while the anti dalit-agenda was the real underlying motive.

Lockdown starves 11-year-old boy to death in Bihar
The New Indian Express
An 11-year-old Dalit boy died of hunger at Mushahar Tola in Bihar's Ara district on March 27, claimed a report put out by the CPI(ML).

Baburao Bagul's “Revolt”: A Fanonian Reading
NewsClick
It is the story of a dalit man who comes in contact with books, words, and the emotional turbulence that then occurs in his subconscious world.

Caritas India, anti-coronavirus campaign for the most marginalized (Photos)
AsiaNews
Health kits distributed to 5 thousand poor people, food to other 5 thousand families of seasonal workers, slum residents, Dalits. The toll of people ...

Caste Roots of Delhi Violence: A Lesser-Known Phenomenon
NewsClick
“Among the Hindus arrested, 797 were OBCs, 747 Dalits, 19 Patels, two ... These outfits work among Dalit communities to promote Brahmanical ...

PM Modi failed to handle coronavirus outbreak, should resign immediately: Chandrashekhar Azad
The Hindu
The Prime Minister should tender his resignation immediately,” the Dalit leader said. The Bhim Army chief also hit out at the ₹1.7 lakh crore package ...

Journalist powering story of Dalits having grass in Varanasi district will get detect
gotech daily (press release) (blog)
He added that the Dalits are not taking in grass but ankari dal (wild pulses) that develop together with wheat in the fields. Sharma instructed the ...

COVID warriors: Pourakarmikas walk the extra mile
The Hindu
R. Moha Raj of Dalit Sangarsh Samiti urged the government to provide pourakarmikas with insurance facilities during these testing times. “They are ...

Janakpur Provincial Hospital declines to treat woman suffering from high fever
Himalayan Times
Janakpur Provincial Hospital in Province 2 refused to treat a poor Dalit woman, who had high fever. Marani Devi Sada, 45, of Mulabari in ...
Nath''s `hit the street then'' led to our exit, say ex-Cong MLAs
Outlook India
... to it, Silawat said that "nobody in the history of Congress party had put all his might at stake for making a Dalit leader deputy CM, like Scindia did.".

Provincial hospital declines to treat woman with COVID-19 symptoms
Himalayan Times
... Provincial Hospital of Province 2 in Janakpurdhan today declined to offer treatment to an impoverished Dalit woman suffering from high fever.

We Could All Take A Cue From Katrina And Give Our Help Chhutti During The Lockdown
iDiva.com
Image source: Dalit Feminist via Instagram. It's also common to hear stories of RWA meetings going awry because there are many fighting the decision ...

COVID-19: Odisha villages tense amid returning migrants
Down To Earth Magazine
... in the village after the sarpanch called for the shelter of the workers in a school, a move opposed by residents of a Dalit colony located near it.

War on Coronavirus Becoming Assault on Marginalised
NewsClick
Social distancing is an everyday phenomenon in a country where touchability and untouchability shape the discursive context of Savarna-Dalit ...

Kamal Nath's 'Hit the Streets' remark aimed at Jyotiraditya Scindia led to our exit, say Ex-Congress ...
citytoday
... to it, Silawat said that “nobody in the history of Congress party had put all his might at stake for making a Dalit leader deputy CM, like Scindia did.”.

Mannargudi Jeeyar Swami – a Hindu Acharya feeds homeless people during the COVID-19 ...
OpIndia (satire)
... the Mannargudi Jeeyar has taken it upon himself to reach out to Dalit communities and the most marginalized groups such as the Arundhatiyar, who ...

Women Of Malwa Region Of Punjab Becoming Entrepreneurs By Organic Farming
PTC Punjabi (blog)
Most of the women hail from Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa and Bathinda and belong from Dalit families with their husbands being small scale farmers.

Street movement, essential services under shadow of confusion
Daily Pioneer
I give water free to many dalit families every day. There should be ease of pass for better deliverance of water which is of high quality and low priced ...

SI Suspended for Lathi Charge on Foriegn Returned Family for not being Quarantine at Peravali ...
SocialNews.XYZ
Patna, July 12 (IANS) Angry over the death of a ruling Dalit Janata Dal-United leader in police custody in Nalanda district, hundreds of people in Bihar ...

How The Shaheen Bagh Library Of 50 Books Became A Symbol Of Public Participation
Youth Ki Awaaz
The date marked the death anniversary of Rohith Vemula, a research scholar from the Dalit community, and we chose the date to commemorate the ...

Food is taking young consciousness door-to-door in Ballia
OBN
Food was distributed door-to-door in a Dalit colony under Khodi-Pakad village under the elements of youth consciousness in Ballia. Swami Abhishek ...

Lynching in India's past: This book shows public violence is ingrained in the history of the land
Scroll.in
This is extended to images from Hindi magazines such as Chand to unravel and