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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?
Adivasi activist Hidme Markam walks out of jail 22 months after being branded a “terrorist”
Markam, a woman forest rights and prisoners’ rights activist, was falsely accused by the police and the NIA of involvement in Naxal activities and arrested on March 9, 2021. She was acquitted in four cases and granted bail in the last one; she was released on January 5 at 7 pm
MP: Acquitted After 2 Years in a ‘Gang-Rape’ Case, Tribal Man Sues Police, Govt for Mental Agony
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Dalits demand to be treated equally in death (payment of ex-gratia) if not while living: Jammu & Kashmir
Community’s members in Jammu demand of lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha’s administration that to their slain members on a par with upper-caste Hindus
Tribal-Jain fallout as Centre stays all tourism at Jharkhand’s Parasnath when tribal bodies seek ‘freeing’ of area from Jains
Ranchi/New Delhi, January 5: While the Centre stepped in to...
Karnataka BJP accused of protecting rape accused, Dalit group warns of protest
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A year of exacerbated attacks on Dalits and Adivasis, arguably two of the most marginalised sections of the Indian population
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The persistent and cruel persecution of the Dalit and Adivasi communities continues
Forcible Conversions in Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts in Chhattisgarh – Part III
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450 Adivasi church-goers faced boycott, violence in December says Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan report
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Savitri rally to be held in Thane on January 3 for the first time
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TN: Dalit youth dies by suicide after ‘upper caste’ men violently attacked him
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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?
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