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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Attacks on Dalits in UP: Valmikis say ‘farewell’ to Hinduism, threaten to convert to Islam

Representational Image: Dalits protesting atrocities against the community. Photo...

‘India is Threatened by Brahminism, Not Muslims’, says Bhim Army Chief

Reports coming in that the UP government plans to...

Rays of Light in a Sea of Darkness

An Analyses of the Political Economy of the Dalit...

By failing to release caste census data, the Centre is jeopardising vulnerable groups

Quota warsIn 2011, after several years of deliberation and...

Saharanpur Up in Flames: One Dead, Thakurs Burn Down 25 Dalit Homes

Saharanpur district of western UP remains tense after Thakurs...

Human Rights Watch Accuses Government of Silence, Inaction Against Cow Vigilantes

Representational Image. Photo credit: ReutersThe Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Kerosene Poured in Dalit Well: Punishment for Band Baaja at Wedding

Kerosene poured in to foul up the well. Photos...

New Policy Would Have Kept Me Out of JNU: Dalit PhD Scholar

My achievement as a student coming from a government...

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Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces

The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.

After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh

Odisha Chief Minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, had in 2022, when he was a BJP legislator supported demands for Dara Singh’s early release, a demand vocalised by Sudarshan TV’s editor, Suresh Chavhanke

Six Years Behind Bars, Still No Trial: Umar Khalid’s long wait for justice

Six years after his arrest, Umar Khalid remains in custody without trial, while successive bail pleas continue to be contested

Deaths, Denials and Delayed Action: The Balaghat crisis

From malnutrition and disease to protests and court intervention, Balaghat’s Adivasi villages reveal a crisis that the administration appears to have recognised only after the deaths became impossible to ignore  

Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…