DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 26 August 2020
40 Dalit families face social boycott in Odisha's Dhenkanal district
Telangana Today
According to the villagers, the girl belonging to Dalit community had plucked the flowers two months ago. The girl's parents also apologized and begged ...
Odisha: 40 Dalit Families Deprived of Essentials and PDS for 2 Weeks, Police Yet to Register FIR
NewsClick
In Odisha's Dhenkanal district, a dalit girl's act of plucking flowers from the backyard of an upper caste family over two months ago has led to the social ...
Jammu Dalit sarpanch resigns after facing casteist abuse, threats for fighting corruption
The Caravan
On 18 July 2020, Kamlesh Bhagat, a Dalit sarpanch of Pochhal A-2 panchayat in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, resigned from her post.
DMK's dalit woman panchayat chief alleges discrimination
Times of India
Coimbatore: Days after discrimination against a dalit panchayat president in Tiruvannamalai district came to light, another dalit panchayat chief said ...
Out to collect fodder, minor Dalit girl gangraped in Baghpat, two arrested
Times of India
MEERUT: A minor Dalit girl, a student of Class VIII, was allegedly gang-raped by two men when she had gone to collect fodder at the banks of Hindon ...
Khalistani extremist Pannun accused of extorting $15000 from Dalit youth
The Siasat Daily
... Pakistan-sponsored Khalistani extremist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun extorted $15,000 from a Dalit youth from Punjab.
SFJ chief accused of extorting $15000 from Dalit man from Punjab
Times of India
The Dalit youth was sent back to Punjab in December last year. Describing Pannun as a “very deceitful man” Surjit said that he never turned up after he ...
Abuse against dalit woman panchayat president: SHRC issues notice to Coimbatore district collector
Times of India
She lodged a complaint with the Negamam police against a non-dalit man identified as Usilamani alias Balasubramanian, who harassed her. Saridha ...
A Letter to Kangana Ranaut On Caste and Reservation
The Wire
I come from the Dalit community. I'm the first woman in my family with an M.Phil. My parents were manual workers, and my mother continues to be.
40 Dalit families face social boycott in Odisha's Dhenkanal
India TV
Around 40 families, belonging to Dalit community, in Kantio Kateni village of Odisha's Dhenkanal district were allegedly socially boycotted after a girl ...
Uttar Pradesh: Family of Dalit girl who died of hunger and sickness gets ration card
Times of India
AGRA: Days after a five-year-old Dalit girl died of hunger and sickness in Agra's Nagla Vidhichand village, the district administration issued a ration ...
CM Jagan breaks his silence on Dalit tonsure case
Telugu360
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has finally talked about the Dalit tonsure case in the State. In a high level meeting with the ...
NDA will fight Bihar Assembly polls under Nitish's leadership: JP Nadda
Business Standard
Chirag Paswan and his father Ram Vilas Paswan are the among prominent Dalit leaders in Bihar, exerting influence in Hajipur, Saran, Chapra and ...
Kamareddy: Tension in village over dispute over water connection
The Hans India
The BCs refused to give connection to Dalits in the village from the newly constructed water tank. This created anger among the Dalit youth against the ...
Book Review: MotherWit By Urmila Pawar
Feminism in India
She identifies herself as a Dalit, Buddhist feminist and voices her lived experience as one through literature. While Weave of my life: A Dalit Woman's ...
The subaltern and the sanskritised
Times of India
Just like the militant strand of social renaissance that Ayyappan epitomizes, this biography hasn't received close scrutiny by Dalit Bahujan thinkers.
Activist-author Manoranjan Byapari gets dream library job
Times of India
Award winning activist-writer and pioneer of Dalit literature Manoranjan Byapari, can heave a sigh of relief. After years of toiling as a cook at Helen ...
Romanticising Indian villages hides casteism: Telugu Poet Jilukara Srinivas to TNM
The News Minute
Though Dalit poetry was a stage in Telugu literature, a revolutionary and Marxist section has been portrayed as a reactionary trend. They considered it ...
Priyanka slams UP govt, child rights panel asks why family was without ration card
Times of India
The Dalit family did not have a ration card and any source of income.” It told the DM, “The commission has taken cognizance of the matter and is ...
