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Dalit youth fighting for his life after upper caste man ‘set him on fire for having an affair with his sister’.

Dalit youth fighting for his life after upper caste man ‘set him on fire for having an affair with his sister’.

The family members of a girl set fire to a Dalit youth in the Agra district on Sunday for allegedly having an affair with her. The youth, Shiv Kumar, received 90 per cent burn injuries and is fighting for life in the district medical college. According to reports, the youth was allegedly having an affair […]

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Dalit Sarpanch in Morena Finally Gets to Celebrate

Dalit Sarpanch in Morena Finally Gets to Celebrate

PURAVAS KALAN VILLAGE, MORENA:  If it is a “tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family” could address the nation today from the ramparts of the Red Fort, in PuravasKalan village of Madhya Pradesh, 34-year-old Badami Devi breached a bastion no less formidable. Today, 67 years after Independence, Badami Devi became the first […]

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