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The khadi he wore, the Gandhi he kept: A Dalit memoir that refuses easy answers
Recently, I received a message from someone I had known since my Gandhinagar days, when I represented the Times of India from 1997 to 2012. He wanted to send me the...
Lakhimpur Kheri: Postmortem confirms Dalit sisters were raped before murder
The bodies of the sister were found hanging from a tree on Wednesday, six arrested so far
Lakhimpur Kheri: Bodies of two sisters found hanging from a tree
Family alleges rape, autopsy report awaited; at least four arrested so far
Tamil Nadu: 27 sentenced to life in Dalit triple murder case
Members of dominant community had attacked eight Dalit men, killing three, for getting “first respect” at a temple in 2018
Dalits gherao Panchayat Officials in Sangrur protesting dummy land auction
The Zameen Prapt Sangharsh Committee tightened the noose around...
MP: 8-year-old found sitting by the roadside with toddler brother’s corpse
Hospital's apathy forces father to leave children near a public park as he went about trying to arrange transport to get them back home
Farrukhabad: Dalit man allegedly beaten to death by UP cops
The family accused the police of targeting and killing the man for his caste identity
UP: Four reports of cops allegedly committing crimes against women!
Two of these instances of brutal violence and assault were against Dalit women, one against a woman from an OBC family
Man “from same community arrested” for allegedly killing Dalit family: UP Police
On Saturday, police had suspended two of its personnel for allegedly “pressuring the Dalit family compromise with the upper-caste family in a dispute linked to grazing land”
Uttar Pradesh: 4 of Dalit family masacred in Prayagraj
Protest ensue, 2 cops suspended; locals accuse police negligence as family had approached cops earlier to lodge an FIR but were allegedly rebuffed
Kundli murder accused remanded to week-long custody
Nihangs' justification of the murdering the man on account of religious sacrilege has angered many netizens and Dalit rights activists
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