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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

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

Maharashtra Farmers dig heels in as govt yet to table assurances in assembly

Waiting and watching to see whether the hurried assurances given to rue All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) are made good, state’s farmers not ready to give in

‘Old Wine in New bottle’: Bhagwat on Caste

“I (god) am in all beings. Whatever be the...

Courts say, calling a person by caste name is not an offence: Explained

The Courts find that “intention” to insult by caste names “missing”. How such an “intention”, especially one reflected in the use of abusive slur and stigmas, can ever be “established” is not articulated, however

Crucial evidence overlooked by IIT Committee, internal survey by SC/ST Cell contradicts report findings

Three witnesses directly contradict the findings of the “Internal Committee” that concluded in its report that it did not find any direct evidence of discrimination against Solanki”; these witnesses deposed that his peers were unwilling to speak to him after coming to know his JEE score; besides internal surveys accessed by The MookNayak show how discrimination is in fact a lived reality

Dalit MBBS female intern allegedly died by suicide due to caste discrimination

Another fateful; incident of death by suicide of a Dalit student in a professional institute has come to the fore but no relief or redressal mechanism seems forthcoming

35 Adivasis arrested after face-off with Forest Department

Representation Image  Burhanpur, March 2023: Two Adivasi activists associated with...

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