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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...

Minority Lives Matter

Is new India a better place for Dalits, Muslims, women and other minorities?

Protests persist! Mumbai, Thane continue to decry Hathras atrocity

Despite coronavirus threats, people continue to demand justice for the Hathras victim who hails from the Valmiki community.

UP Police now claim that Hathras Dalit victim was not raped!

UP ADG Prashant Kumar, says forensic report confirm that victim wasn’t raped, says action will be taken against ‘misinformation’

Acquittal of Babri accused, gang rape of UP Dalit woman are interlinked; have roots in the history

September 30, 2020 will be marked as another dark day in our history

Dalit girl gangraped by ‘upper-caste’ men dies: Will UP CM finally react?

The 19-year-old Dalit girl was gang-raped and tortured by four men in Hathras

Karnataka Bandh: Farmers arrested while protesting changes in APMC, Land Reforms Acts

Following the week after nationwide protests against the three anti-farmer Bills of the Centre, Karnataka’s farmers declared a bandh from 6 AM to 6 PM.

I will not take my husband’s body till all accused are arrested: Minaxiben Maheshwari

Dalit Lawer Devji Maheshwari, was a senior activist of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF)

Karnataka Bandh against ‘anti-farmer, anti-worker and anti-Dalit-oppressed’ policies

Famers in the state fight an additional battle against the state amendments to the APMC and land reform Acts

Why did Deepak Chaurasia allow hate speech on his show?

He did not intervene when pro-RSS panelist DU Prof Sangit Raagi demanded a "ban" on the Quran

Thakurs deny Dalit woman cremation, police initiate probe

The woman’s body was forced to be taken off the pyre as members of Thakur community objected

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