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Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Dalit families found to be living in fear of violence at the hands of dominant caste neighbours in Karnataka
A Fact-finding report on the grievous attack on Arun Kumar, a Dalit man, by three dominant caste members brings forth the culture of violence and discrimination in a Chikkamagaluru Town, accompanied by the apathy of the police
Parliamentary Committee Gives Nod to Proposed Dilution of Forest Rights
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Gujarat: Family of Dalits attacked by six men belonging to the Kshatriya community, leaves 2 dead, 4 injured
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Another student, belonging to the Scheduled Caste community, dies by suicide in IIT
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IMSD condemns caste-based discrimination by a Kerala mosque
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MP, UP witness shocking incidents of violence against Dalits
India once again witnesses a trail of violence against Dalits as three incidents recorded on camera emerge on social media
Pasmanda Muslims need justice, not merely lip service
PM Modi has taken up the cause of ‘Pasmanda’ Muslims in order to woo them to the BJP fold in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Ironically, it was his government too that refused reservation benefits to Pasmanda Muslims and Dalit Christians: infamously the BJP’s official stand under Modi has been that, since “Islam and Christianity were egalitarian religions, did not have untouchability, hence no need to accord SC status to ‘Dalit Muslims’”
Casteism in the Kerala Muslim Community, DPJC strongly objects
The Dalit Pasmanda Justice Collective (DPJC) has, in a tweet, strongly objected to a prevalent instance of casteism by the Puthoorpally Muslim Jama-ath" mosque in Changanassery, Kerala; a letter sent by the Secretary of the Masjid Committee directs exclusion of Dalits Muslims from a meeting, stating that “traditionally your ancestors were prohibited from attenting the general meeting”
SC deems caste-based discrimination in higher education system to be a ‘very sensitive matter’
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Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
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