Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

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

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

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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

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