Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

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?

Not a Dalit Women’s Day in India

The more layered oppressions faced routinely by Dalit women demand that Indian police and courts respond; this however will only happen if diversity through creative affirmative action within these structures is inbuilt; today the system resists any discussion on diversity

Karnataka: Dalit homes set on fire for dancing in procession

The police have booked 25 persons and 2 persons have surrendered to the police and the investigation is on.

Systematic Entrenched Caste Discrimination in IITs is depriving young students right to dignity and life: PUCL

Representation ImagePUCL Maharashtra has issued a statement expressing distress...

Mumbai Dharna for Darshan Solanki makes calls for law against caste discrimination

From conspicuous postmortem to claims of caste discrimination, Darshan’s family, present at the protest, demand answers from the IIT-B authorities

Appeal verdict AIDWA demands of CBI

The organisation has stated that the judgement reeks of patriarchal and casteist bias

Tribal medico ends life; faced harassment, ragging from senior

The police found that ragging was commonplace in the medical institution.

IIT-Bombay grilled on counsellor posting: NCST 

The institute has been defending charges that it waa its alleged failure to create safe spaces for marginalised students that was the cause that led to the alleged suicide of a 18-year-old Dalit student from Gujarat, Darshan Solanki reports The Hindu

IIT Bombay Dalit student death: Dr Bhalchandra Mungekar, ex Rajya Sabha member, demands SIT probe into his death 

On February 12, Darshan Solanki B-Tech first-year student, had died by suicide, serious claims of caste discrimination were made, countrywide protests followed

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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?

Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts

Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.

Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces

The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.