Manual scavenging is a term used in India which refers to unsafe, undignified and inhuman way of removal of untreated human excreta using brooms and tin plates usually without personal protective equipment. These excreta is piled in baskets and carried on head. In India even today scavengers and sweepers are employed to carry out the […]
Kanhaiya Kumar is the current President of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union. He is also a leader of the All India Student Federation (AISF), the student wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI). In February 2016, he was arrested and charged with sedition by the Delhi police for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in a […]
It has become quite boring – this talk of minorities being oppressed in India and living in fear. Those who talk like this, are the ones who have absolutely no clue of what is happening in India and how. Or maybe they are taking the flow of rhetorical information on the Internet too seriously. There […]
Manjula Pradeep Dalit women are placed at the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy in India as they face systemic and structural discrimination threefold: as Dalits, as poor, and as women. The population of Dalit women in India as per the 2011, National Census is 9.79 crore which is 48.59% to the total Dalit population in India. […]
Since the early days of independence, much transformation has taken place in the condition of the depressed classes, untouchables, harijans, scheduled castes, backwards, and Dalits. Use whatever euphemism to identify the lower segments of caste in India, the spread of education, opportunities for political participation and the possibility of having a government job ensured that […]
To be a woman is a disadvantage; to be a Dalit woman is a double disadvantage. Her sex is her great disadvantage. The world is a patriarchal world, primarily.
We are assembled here to celebrate the birth anniversary of a great man whose greatness was realised by the people of south Asia only in the last two decades or so. Therein lies the story of Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s prescience in being able to focus on the question of social justice. No one other than […]
This study was undertaken in 1589 villages from 12 districts of Gujarat with 5462 respondents. The basic objectives behind the study was: To refute the belief that untouchability is limited to remote and economically underdeveloped corners of India. To educate indian society about these practices and to initiate an informed national and international debate on […]
Lack of strong Dalit movement in Gujarat gives RSS-VHP-BJP a free run Interviewed by Anoop Kumar, Insight Young Voices magazine. June 15, 2009. You have been consistently writing on the rise of Hindu nationalism in the country. Recently, we all saw Tehelka’s expose´ of the involvement of the State in the Gujarat pogrom. The whole […]
It has been widely reported that there has been an increase in the incidents of atrocities on Dalits in Haryana over the years. This is evident from the media coverage of the happenings at Jhajjar, Dulina (Sonipat), Harsola (Kaithal), Gohana (Sonipat) and Salwan (Karnal) Therefore, it becomes essential to trace the factors behind the rise […]
