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From December 2024 Onwards: CJP raises alarm over escalating anti-Dalit atrocities to NCSC
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) sends complaint to the NCSC, shedding light on widespread anti-Dalit atrocities across the nation and calling for justice for the victims of systemic discrimination.
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MP, UP: incidents of hate, intolerance and violence against Muslims reported from both states
Targeting of religious minorities continue, in one shocking incident the police reportedly beat up Muslim locals who had called them for help
‘The Elephant Whisperers’ & the banality of Hindu American Foundation’s Attempt to co-opt Adivasis
The Hindutva protagonists’ fixation to designate indigenous tribes of India as “Hindus” goes back to the times of their founder, M.S. Golwalkar.
File FIR against Head Counsellor, Ms Hima Anaredy under Atrocities Act: NCST to IIT Mumbai
The NCST pulls up IIT-Bombay for its insensitivity, absence of adequate mechanisms or response and also directs implementation of measures to tackle lack of accountability towards Dalit students
Adivasi and other farmers under the AIKS bring Maharashtra govt to its feet
The sheer tenacity and resolve of the farmers who marched at short notice was a response to the acute crisis in falling onion prices; demands conceded are extensive from electricity and housing to actualising the recognition of rights under The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006)
Actor Chetan’s Second Arrest: First as Warning, Second as Strategy?
UPDATE March 24, 2023: Chetan Kumar gets a bailActor and...
Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
Dalit student bruised and beaten for drinking water from bucket in school: UP
On the day that 96 years ago, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar tried to establish and proclaim the norms of equality breaking the taboo of Dalits’ right to drinking water; in UP today, the Bundelkhand Dalit Adhikar Manch has reported the violent assault on a young Ankush simply because he drank water for a common bucket in the schoolmon March 18, as reported by Mooknayak
67 suicides in central institutes of higher learning despite 80 % claiming SC/ST cells for “assistance”
While 87/108 such institutes, that is a high 80 %, have SC/ST cells for assistance according to a reply by the ministry of education in Parliament, the rates of suicides (67 over five years) is high, suggesting structural flaws, both in their construct and functioning
Trolling, harassment of Dalit writer and activist, Shalin Maria Lawrence condemned: NWMI
The Network of Women in Media, India, strongly condemns the continuous and ongoing harassment of Chennai-based Dalit writer and activist Shalin Maria Lawrence on social media sites.
MP: Dalit family brutally assaulted by Thakurs, former had gone to take possession of their farmland
Seven members left gravely injured, one 60-year-old succumbed to his injured
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