Uttar Pradesh: A Dalit man was beaten to death in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh on March 7, due to “old enmity”, said Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Jha. The 55-year-old man was killed in Chachya village, in Nagra area. Maliram was attacked with sticks by the assailants and he died on the spot, they said. An […]
Muzaffarnagar: When JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar spoke of caste inequality and called Rohith Vemula his “icon” after his release on bail for sedition, he didn’t have to connect the dots for his audience.Kanhaiya’s arrest in JNU came just short of a month after the Dalit student committed suicide in his room on the Hyderabad Central University campus. Like […]
Visakhapatnam: “I will not relent fighting till I get justice for my son,” said V Radhika, mother of Rohith Vemula who committed suicide on the campus of University of Hyderabad. Radhika, in her attempt to garner support from civil organisations to ensure justice for her son, arrived in the city on Friday. She lamented that […]
Bangalore: Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula’s mother from Wednesday stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi As being “anti-Dalit” AND “anti-students”. Speaking while in a protest here, organised through the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) ALONG WITH joined from senior Congress leaders with Jantar Mantar, Radhika Vemula said the death involving her child politicised because of the Bharatiya […]
Karimnagar: An eerie of silence prevails in this tiny Challur village of Veenavanka mandal with the womenfolk in general and girls in particular still traumatised after the heinous gang-rape of a Dalit girl and filming of the crime by the accused. With the media highlighting the plight of the girl, the villagers are a worried […]