Pune: A scuffle between Dalit and Maratha youths left a few injured and houses damaged in a slum area in Pune’s Lohegaon locality on Thursday. After the scuffle, the Marathas marched towards Lohegaon police station, demanding that the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act be repealed. While the situation is under […]
The suicide of PhD student Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University in January 2016 mobilised student and Dalit protests around the country. The Justice Ashok Roopanwal Commission, set up to look into the circumstances leading to Rohith’s suicide, has reportedly found that his mother, Radhika Vemula, faked her Dalit status and that her son killed […]
Hyderabad: Caste discrimination in universities will give rise to even bigger social movements across the country, said Umar Khalid, one of the founders of Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Student Organisation (BASA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. “Suppressing freedom to express opinions and intolerance towards diversity of opinions and ideologies in universities has become the order of […]
Rohith Vemula is a name that the current government would like to forget as soon as possible. But despite all efforts, the name repeatedly makes it to the headlines and national discussion. Despite the departure of the then MHRD Minister Smriti Irani, the controversy refuses to die down. The dispute already has garnered enough headlines. […]
Hyderabad: Rohith Vemula’s brother, Raja Vemula on Friday alleged that the report of the commission, constituted by the HRD ministry after the Hyderabad university scholar’s death, was aimed at saving the BJP Union Ministers, Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad Central University and ABVP members. The Justice Roopanwal Commission, in its report to the HRD ministry, has given […]
Hyderabad: Students at University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Friday staged a protest against the report of Justice Ashok Kumar Rupanwala Commission, terming it an attempt to shield two Union ministers and the Vice Chancellor in Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide case. Students under the banner ‘Justice for Rohith Vemula’ took out a rally on […]
Ahmedabad: On the outskirts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home city, the stench from cow carcasses littering the roadside is overpowering as India’s lowest social caste keeps up protests against deep-rooted discrimination. Dalits, previously known as ‘untouchables’, stopped collecting carcasses more than two months ago in Gujarat state, after the brutal beating of four Dalit […]
Lucknow: After a series of protests, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University on Friday conditionally revoked the expulsion order of three Dalit students who were allegedly involved in attacking a teacher on September 7. In a notification (uploaded on university website) by BBAU proctor Ram Chandra, the three students – Sumit Kumar, Jay Singh and Ajay Singh – were allowed to enter the […]
When Bezwada Wilson learnt that he had been named winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his campaign to stop manual scavenging, he saw it as acknowledgment of being on the right path. “My fight to eradicate manual scavenging is still on and I will be relaxed the day people are no longer subjected to […]
Ahmedabad: More than half of the scheduled caste population in the state does not have houses with proper concrete ceilings. Around 55% of them either have temporary roofs or asbestos sheets on their dwellings. Moreover, around 53% of the scheduled caste population in the state gets untreated drinking water. Census 2011 figures reveal that the […]
