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

Saturday, 1 August 2020

08-01-2020,


DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 1 August 2020

No Dalit among 200 priests invited for Ram temple event. What Mayawati said
Hindustan Times
The saints belonging to the upper caste groups have been invited, he said, alleging that he was ignored for being a Dalit. The Dalits are being ignored in ...

What do dating, romance and love really mean for a Dalit woman in India today?
Scroll.in
An excerpt from 'Swipe Me Left, I'm Dalit', by Christina Dhanaraj, from 'Love is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire', edited by Debotri Dhar.

Shaheed Udham Singh: The forgotten Dalit revolutionary who avenged Jallianwala Bagh
DailyO
In this region, Dalits face social ostracism and are not given work in the village if they try to assert themselves. So if one wants to understand the situation ...

Ayodhya 'bhoomi poojan': Vishwa Hindu Parishad reaches out to Dalits for soil collection
Economic Times
VHP spokesperson Vinod Bansal recalled that the foundation stone of Ram Janmabhoomi was laid in 1989 by the Dalit karsevak Kameshwar Chaupal, ...

Dalit Man's Suicide Reveals Grim Toll Of India's Khalistan Crackdown
HuffPost India
Twenty-three year old Lovepreet, who was Dalit, was summoned as a witness in the case. At the time of the incident in 2018, Lovepreet was studying ...

KCR Govt has unleashed terror against Dalits: Uttam
The Siasat Daily
Referring to the incident of suicide by one B. Narasimhulu, in Gajwel constituency (represented by CM KCR), Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Dalit ...

'Andhra Pradesh Saw Over 150 Atrocities Against Dalits in Past 4 Months'
NewsClick
On July 18, a dalit man named Y Kiran Kumar died in police custody in ... and stigmatising them, saying that dalits were spreading the coronavirus.

Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements by Amit Ahuja, Oxford, Rs 550
Telegraph India
Ahuja demonstrates that the Dalit identity trap, built out of stigma and discrimination, constrains the field of possibility for Dalits as compared to non-Dalits ...

Telangana Dalit farmer takes own life over alleged land grab attempt by officials
The News Minute
A Dalit farmer took his own life in Veluru, Wargal in Gajwel municipality of Telangana following alleged land grabbing by local revenue authorities and ...

Macaulay Is Very Relevant Today and Helps Dalits, OBCs Join the Global Economy
The Wire
But vast numbers of Indians who are outside the English-speaking milieu – food producers, such as the Shudra, Dalits and Adivasis, who work in the ...

Before mosque, temple, Ayodhya was Buddhist site: Ramdas Athawale
Hindustan Times
The Dalit leaders need to come together and work towards constructing a museum and a Buddha Vihar near the site,” said Shinde. Rajendra Gawai who ...

What's in a name? Stigma and shame, say the residents of Tiruchy's Drainage Street
The New Indian Express
A sign of the vicious cycle of caste, occupation and stigma, most of those workers were Dalit. Even today most residents of Drainage Street are Dalits ...

Farmer's wife attempts self-immolation after govt team destroys crops in agricultural fields in MP
The New Indian Express
BHOPAL: In an incident resembling the attempted suicide by a landless Dalit couple in Guna district on July 14, a woman allegedly attempted to ...

'Congress playing politics over dispute between two individuals in Manthani'
Telangana Today
But the Congress leaders are trying to paint it as a Dalit issue which is ... that the State government had already distributed over 15,000 acres to Dalits.

TPCC Uttam condemns farmer's suicide in KCR's home turf
The Hans India
Hyderabad: Terming the suicide of a Dalit farmer in Gajwel, the constituency of KCR, as beyond comprehension, TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy ...

Bihar Deputy CM accuses Mumbai Police of 'obstructing' Bihar Police
Free Press Journal
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Friday favoured that an invitation be extended to Dalit Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri for the ..

HIGHLIGHTS NORTH 5.45 PM
THE WEEK
Mayawati bats for invitation to Dalit spiritual leader for Ram temple groundbreaking ceremony. Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Friday favoured ...

Pandemic worsens plight of the disabled
The New Indian Express
Similar is the predicament of another visually impaired dalit woman Kuni Das of Dihasahi village. Kuni too earned her livelihood by begging. But ever ...

National Education Policy needs close scrutiny for what it says, what it doesn't
The Indian Express
... or Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Dalit Studies, Studies of Discrimination and Exclusion, Environmental Studies and Development ...