Dalit students plan protest against separate biometric attendance at Jagraon College
Ludhiana: The Dalit students of Lajpat Rai DAV College in Jagraon announced an agitation on Monday against a biometric attendance system installed by the college authorities for them. The students alleged that a separate biometric fingerprint reader was started “only for SC/ST students” and the principal announced that “irregular students getting less than 90% attendance […]
Dalits threaten nationwide rail roko protest
Ahmedabad: Dalit agitation leader Jignesh Mevani on Sunday announced a “rail roko andolan” across the country later this month against incidents of atrocity on members of the community. He said the date of the agitation would be announced on September 16 during a public gathering in Delhi. “We are mentally preparing people to expand this […]
Dalit Samman Sangharsh Yatra’ reaches Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: ‘Dalit Samman Sangharsh Yatra’ a March against incidents of dalits atrocity in Una that began on August 29 from Junagadh reached at Ahmedabad on Friday. The rally led by local dalit leader and a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member Jayanti Makadia comprising hundreds of his community members was welcomed by OBC, SC, ST Ekta […]
Andhra tops southern states in crimes against Dalits, fourth in the country: NCRB data
Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh is the most vulnerable state in south India for Dalits, accounting for around 9.8 per cent of the total crimes reported in the country, according to the latest NCRB data. While Andhra is the fourth state overall after Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, a total of 4,415 cases were reported across the […]
Can’t Return To Villages, Say Dalits Who Attended Una Rally In Thousands
Una: Balubhai Sarvaiya, one of the four young Dalits who was filmed being thrashed in Una after wrongly being accused of killing a cow, needed eight policemen to escort him to his village last evening. Because of seething caste tension in this south-western part of Gujarat. 19 people, including three policemen, were injured in clashes […]
Dalit grps come together over gau-rakshak attacks
Lucknow: Dailts in Uttar Pradesh are now up in arms. Several Dalit as well as other organisations in Uttar Pradesh joined hands on Tuesday under the banner of Dalit Alpsankhyak Shoshan Mukti Morcha in Lucknow to fight the cause of atrocities being meted out to minorities in the name of gauraksha. Representatives of as many as 10 organisations from both the […]
Dalits to take out rally in Gandhinagar on Monday
Gandhinagar: Dalit bodies from various parts of the state, under the banner of Gujarat Anusuchit Jati Atyachar Ladat Samiti, have planned to take out a rally and submit a memorandum to CM Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar on August 21. The memorandum, containing a charter of 16 demands, will be submitted to the CM, said Kirit […]
How online anti-caste platforms are reclaiming and reasserting Dalit space
Are you going to quote me? How exactly will this be used?” asks Cynthia Stephen, Bengaluru-based activist and policy analyst on gender, poverty and development. Stephen, who is an active contributor to anticaste digital media platforms, goes on to explain the context for the extra caution. “A lot of our material is appropriated, without any […]
Dalits plan massive rally in Delhi ahead of winter session
New Delhi: Looking to build on the momentum of the Dalit protests in Gujarat, scheduled caste organisations are planning to stage a mega rally at Delhi’s Ramlila grounds ahead of the winter session of Parliament that is being billed as a challenge to the Modi government’s policies. The sustained protests after the flogging of Dalits […]
RSS scouts for its own Dalit figures
New Delhi: Unknown till a few months ago, the late Rohit Vemula, Kanhaiya Kumar and Jignesh Mevani have now emerged as the faces of the Dalit cause on the national front. They led their own agitations, but their cause converged and with that, they made common enemies—the BJP and the Sangh. To counter the trend, […]
