Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

A people on the brink: The fight to protect the Shompen of Great Nicobar

India’s tribal communities have long lived at the margins of society, shaped by histories of displacement, fragile livelihoods and limited access to essential services. Among them, the Particularly Vulnerable...

Anti-Dalit violence all pervasive even in April 2023, #DalitHistory month

More incidents of caste-based atrocities reported across states serving as a bitter reminder that the road to equality and a casteless society is hard

Manual Scavenging continues unabated, Indian Govts turns a deaf ear to acknowledge this systemic, extreme violence

Even as Supreme Court directs governments to meet to discuss implementation of a central law, abolition of manual scavenging, a callous system has a lukewarm response

Complaint to NCSC over Bihar Police assault on minor Dalit boys for playing music at Holi

In its complaint, CJP has informed the Commission that the police, unprompted, beat up the Dalit boys and their mothers came to save them, beat them as well

Study Reveals Inequity in PM-JAY Implementation, Fails to Reach Most Vulnerable Sections

Analysis published in Lancet Regional Health shows discrepancy in health insurance utilisation among EWS in India

Gujarat: 3 lose their lives and 2 hospitalised from toxic sewer gas exposure; investigation launched

Second incident of death due to asphyxiation reported in two weeks, is this a sign of state negligence?

Dalit Scholar of Wardha University faces threat to life & career  

With his PhD being unfairly held up, Rajneesh Kumar Ambedkar had to resort to a peaceful public protest; now goons have been brought in to threaten him and his protesting colleagues, even attacking them

While the OBCs are ripe fruit for electoral stakes, last 5 years reveals low representation in All India Services

Data provided by the union government in the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha shows over the last five years, representation of OBCs, Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in All India Services has been low.

March 2023 Round up of attacks on Dalits

In the month of March Dalits across the country were stopped from entering temples, their homes burnt, assaulted for playing music and so on

Finally Dalit Christians in SC list, Valmikis as STs: YSR Jagan Reddy in Andhra

With these state government resolutions, Jagan pushes ahead with outreach to the marginalised; both groups backed the YSRCP to the hilt in the 2019 elections; Andhra CM also assures other tribal groups that inclusion of Valmikis won’t affect existing quotas.

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

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