Not this way
SC/ST Act changes are misguided. There is no short cut to exerting political will and administrative reform. In India, even today, it is painfully easy to recover evidence, anecdotal as well as documented, of prejudice towards the marginalised, especially those kept outside the mainstream along the axes of caste and tribal identity. Along with policies […]
Changes in SC/ST Act will increase fissures in society
New Delhi: A day after the cabinet, despite objections of two senior ministers, approved amendments to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act that make mere knowledge of the victim’s SC/ST status sufficient to establish the perpetrator’s guilt, it has come under criticism. Lawyers, former cops, politicians and academics slammed the move. […]
Tirunelveli village tense as 4 dalits killed this month
Tirunelveli: Family members of a Dalit farmer, who was found murdered on his farmland on Sunday morning, refused to accept the body and staged a road-roko demanding that the murderers be brought to book, here on Sunday. Later, they picketed the Suthamalli police station, following which security was tightened and patrolling was intensified in the […]
Dalit wedding performed in temple after many decades
Dalits were not allowed to enter the temple until recently After many decades, the first Dalit wedding was performed in Kasi Viswanatha Sivan Temple at Oduvankurichi near Namagiripettai on Thursday. The marriage of S. Velmurugan of Oduvankurichi hamlet and Kiruthika, Kanthampatti, Salem district, was performed amidst tight police protection. The villagers said that over the […]
Poverty falls fast for dalits and Muslims
By Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, 3 Nov, 2013 During the period of fast economic growth in the 2000s, how did poor minorities fare? Some heartening answers have been provided in a Columbia University paper by Panagariya and More (Poverty by Social Religious and Economic groups in India and its Largest States, 1993-94 to 2011-12 ). […]
SC/STs ahead of rest in child sex ratio
Latest census data on scheduled castes and tribes shows that the trend of STs having the best sex ratios, and SCs too doing better than the non-SC/ST population continues to hold good. The trend suggests that ‘backwardness’ may actually work in favour of gender justice, presumably by denying access to sex determination techniques. Detailed data […]
NHRC to hear SC, ST issues
VARANASI: A public hearing by National Human Rights Commission of India for the issues related to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes will be held in the city on November 26 and 27th. As many as 23 cases will be attended to on the occasion. A five member team consisting of NHRC, chairperson KG Balakrishnan, and […]
Two minor dalit girls raped in Bhagalpur
BHAGALPUR: At the time when people across the globe were busy celebrating diwali, two minor dalit girls (one studying in class eight and other in class six in a middle school) were raped by two middle aged persons near Asuraha village under Chandan police station in Banka district. One of the accused is 45-years old […]
Dalit hangs self after wife opts to stay with parents
CHENNAI: After years of courtship, they eloped and got married, but lived as a couple for barely a month. In what appears to be a case of striking similarity to the recent Divya-Ilavarasan love tragedy at Dharmapuri, a 27-year-old Dalit man committed suicide here after his caste Hindu wife deserted him due to apparent pressure […]
