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Remembering the Kalinga Nagar Massacre: A tragic reminder of a 19-year struggle for justice after the brutal police firing on tribal protestors

January 2, 2025, marks the 19th anniversary of one of the most tragic and unjust killings of tribal people in India’s recent history. As the world welcomes a new...

In MP, Three Dalit Youths of a Single Family Are Dead. How Has the Police Responded?

A fact-finding report has pointed out the implicit bias that had characterised police action since the family's very first complaint in 2019 against assault, threats and torture by dominant caste groups.

Caste and Indifference: Two separate incidents of rape against minor Dalit girls in UP and Bihar receive no media coverage, protest or outrage

How can we combat violence against women when media and public outrage fall silent when the victims belong to marginalised communities?

TISS authorities ‘targeting’ Adivasis, Dalits: Eviction notice to PhD scholars

In a scathing letter to the Director, the Dean of Student Affairs, and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, members* of the civil rights group All India Inquilabi Youth and Students Alliance (ALIYSA) have sought immediate withdrawal of the recent eviction notices to PhD scholars to vacate the campus in 24 hours. The letter disputes the claim by the TISS authorities that the scholars have taken beyond 5 years of time in completing their doctoral work.

In a historic verdict, SC allows sub-classification within Scheduled Castes but makes regressive comments on creamy layer

In a landmark ruling, while a 7-judge bench overturns the E.V. Chinnaiah judgment, allowing states to create sub-classification within SCs, four judges venture into the question of creamy layer that was not before the bench at all

Union Minister says no report of manual scavenging in last 5 years

Safai Karmachari Andolan demands that the Prime Minister come out with a White Paper on work done by govt for manual scavengers in last 10 years and seeks special package for liberation and rehabilitation of manual scavengers

India’s ‘tradition’ and ‘culture’ of lynching

Lynchings in India are not isolated incidents that happen ‘out of the blue’ to some people somewhere – and it would be a grave error on our part to presume so.

MP diverted SC/ST welfare funds for cow welfare, atrocities against Dalits reported across country

In Gujarat Dalit youth beaten for posting picture on Instagram wearing a safa and sunglasses, Dalit teen forced to drink cow urine in UP and anti-Dalit slogan raised in JNU

A Rare Annihilator of Caste

Anand Teltumbde rightly argues for structural changes in the post-Ambedkar anti-caste movements while rising above the present-day “devotional cult”.

Jhansi tribals had to borrow at 5% per month to build houses under PM Awas

Various welfare schemes have been launched for the tribal...

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