DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 9 July 2020
Atrocities against Dalits see a rise
The New Indian Express
The Centre and states need to step up to clamp down on rising atrocities against Dalits amid the Covid-19 pandemic, said activists on Monday.
The Cisco Case Could Expose Rampant Prejudice Against Dalits in Silicon Valley
The Wire
San Francisco: Over 2o years ago, a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay figured that a classmate was a Dalit. The discovery was ...
Maharashtra: RPI to protest on July 11 against atrocities on Dalits, Buddhists
Mumbai Mirror
"The RPI has decided to organise a protest due to the growing number of atrocity cases on Dalit being reported from various parts of the state even ...
Dalit leader demands arrest of 'Rajgruh' vandals
Devdiscourse
Dalit leader demands arrest of 'Rajgruh' vandals. Indise said the incident was akin to an attack on the identity of followers of the architect of the ...
How India's Most Downtrodden Embraced the Power of Statues
BloombergQuint
It's not unusual for Dalits to be murdered if they marry outside their caste — with their corpses hung in public as a lesson. Dalit women's bodies are ...
Quack sedates, rapes Dalit woman at clinic in UP's Sambhal, films act
Times of India
Bareilly: A Dalit woman, mother of two children, who visited a clinic run by a "quack" in Mandi Kishan Das Sarai area of Sambhal district with a ...
Laal salaam massacre: When former West Bengal Jyoti Basu ordered the massacre of Dalit ...
Free Press Journal
What many people won't bring up is the 1979 massacre of Dalit refugees at Marichjhapi island. In an article written in The Wire, columnist Debjani ...
Cisco caste discrimination case busts the myth of the South Asian diaspora as a model minority
Scroll.in
The Cisco case bears the burden of making anti-Dalit prejudice legible to American civil rights law as an extreme form of social disability attached to ...
Dalits-OBCs being oppressed in 'Yogi Raj': UP Congress
United News of India
Dalits-OBCs being oppressed in 'Yogi Raj': UP Congress ... Kumar Lallu on Tuesday mounted a scathing attack on anti-Dalit-OBC BJP government in ...
Domicile status for Dalits in J&K; Left opposes, says the move is to upset Kashmir's demography
Times Now
In order to grant domicile to Dalits in Jammu and Kashmir, new rules by CPI(M) are an RSS plot to end Muslim majority in the state. Via their ...
State of California sues Cisco and two Indian origin employees for caste discrimination in USA ...
Bar & Bench
Not only do Dalits endure the most severe inequality and unfair treatment in both the public and private sectors, they are often targets of hate violence ...
Custodial Torture: It Is the Criminal Justice System That Requires Investigation
The Wire
Slogans such as 'Dalit lives matter', 'Muslim lives matter' and 'Adivasi lives matter' do not click in Indian society. In the US, the brutal chokehold of a ...
Attack on Ambedkar's house is attack on Constitution, says Amar Sable
BW Businessworld
"In Maharashtra, incidents of atrocities on Dalits are happening again and again, due to lack of strict action, people who are of distorted mindset have ...
Crisis of the future
The Indian Express
Children of one of the most marginalised Dalit communities in Bihar, the Musahars, have taken to rag-picking after the scheme, which guaranteed ...
Custodial Torture Continues Unabated in India Amidst Culture of Impunity: Report
The Wire
In this regard, the report cited the case of two Dalit brothers – Deepak and Dashrath – and 12 labourers, including women, of Gujarat who were ...
Indian voters are ready to go beyond caste, some politicians are not
ThePrint
Even if there was a Dalit family massacred a month ago. The lived reality of caste politics is a paradox. I have sat through Brahmin political gatherings ...
Why did Sambit Patra put up Pinarayi Vijayan's picture with a woman and what did he write?
Free Press Journal
The Jyoti Basu government then ordered the massacre of the Dalits, and thanks to the Left's power in the state for the next two decades, not too many ...
Getting America to recognise caste: previous efforts, renewed push
The Indian Express
Scholar-activist Suraj Yengde argues that a Dalit consciousness has been ... It showed that 67 per cent of Dalits faced caste discrimination at the ...
BJD MLA Bishnu Das passes away at 66
The New Indian Express
Das, a prominent Dalit leader of Odisha, was also the Deputy Chairman of State Planning Board. A six-time MLA, Das was elected to Odisha Assembly ...
