Kalaburag: Several progressive organisations and individuals took out a protest rally here on Wednesday expressing their dissatisfaction over the State government’s failure in arresting the assassins of scholar M.M. Kalburgi. The march was organised to mark the second death anniversary of Kalburgi. The agitators assembled at Jagat Circle in the evening and paid their homage […]
Raichur: The ideologies of the Buddha and B.R. Ambedkar have inspired many people to participate in the movement for eradication of caste system in India, Harsha Bhosle, professor of Political Science, Bombay University, Mumbai, has said He was addressing a national conference, “Eradication of Caste System and Current Problems”, jointly organised by the Raichur Post […]
Kurnool: District Mahila Congress president Patnam Rajeswari and some women launched a relay hunger strike in front of the Collectorate here on Saturday demanding the arrest of Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy High School chairman V. Janardhan Reddy and his sons Harshvardhan Reddy and Diwakar Reddy in connection with the suspicious death of an SSC student Preethi […]
Jaipur: A 30-year-old Dalit woman was kidnapped and gang-raped allegedly by five persons while she was on her way to Binnu village from Meghsar in Churu district of the state for two days. Breaking her silence, the woman, along with her family lodged a case at Taranagar police station on Saturday evening. According to the […]
Hosur: An activist and former district secretary of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of all Types of Differently-Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) was murdered here in a crime of domestic abuse on Wednesday. The victim Shyamala, was murdered by her husband Nanjudappa, who broke into her house on Wednesday night and bludgeoned her with […]
Hyderabad: The Centre for Dalit Studies on Wednesday said the Roopanwala Commission set up to look into the suicide of UoH scholar Rohith Vemula adopted “illegal” and “unethical practices”. Those attending the meeting said the commission was only supposed to look into the facts and ascertain the reasons that had led to the scholar’s death but […]
Lucknow: The age old injustice of barring lower castes from entering temples has long been banned, but in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, it still continues in letter and in spirit. Dalits from Gadaha village in the district have been told not to step outside their homes for 10 days because people belonging to the upper […]
Hyderabad: About 250 students and some faculty members of the University of Hyderabad protested against the Roopanwal Commission’s report on Rohith Vemula’s death last year. The Roopanwal Commission report says research scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide last year because he was “a troubled individual”, not because of caste discrimination. The report also says Vemula was […]
Kanpur: Tension gripped Gadaha village in Maudahatown of Hamirpur district on Tuesday after a temple priest pasted a notice at its entrance warning people of dalit community to stay put in their houses as a 10-day ‘Ramayana Paath’ is underway at the temple. The dalits alleged that they are not allowed to enter the temple during […]
Almost everyone is in banal agreement: caste is a terrible concept. But for the inhumanity of the system to really hit you, one needs to look at manual scavengers at work, picking up excreta with little more than a pan and a broom – and often their hands. In the world-view dictated by caste, these […]
