Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

From the two-year gang-rape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl to the public torture of a 10-year-old Adivasi child, Andhra Pradesh reels under the weight of caste atrocities, bureaucratic silence, and political blame games

In an ‘Urgent Appeal issued to President Draupadi Murmu and Governor of Chhattisgarh, by close to 100 lawyers and legal professionals across India’, the group urges the revocation of the ‘arbitrary and unjust ban on the Moolvasi Bachao Manch (MBM) and the release of all its imprisoned members in the state. The appeal also demands the repeal of the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005

After centuries of domination, surprisingly it is the ‘Brahminical-Gene’...

Various indigenous (Adivasi) communities constitute about 8.6 per cent...

It was Krishna Kumar, the well-known educationist, who I...

Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of caste discrimination, exclusion and untouchability to Dalit sections from among Hindus, Sikh or Buddhist; the recent decision thereby validates what has been increasingly viewed as the discriminatory presidential directive

Citing the passage of time and interests of justice, the Court curtailed the suspension of Ramadas K.S., enabling his return to academic work without ruling on the merits of the disciplinary action

Expressing serious concern over fairness, court restrains police from proceeding, considers plea for FIR and court-monitored SIT in the death of Somnath Suryawanshi

From the use of the word ‘Harijan’ alone, to the absence of acknowledgement of structural discrimination within Bangladesh (and Pakistan) the Dalit movement has a long way to go in both Islamic countries

Shocking accounts from Rajasthan, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh expose the horrifying persistence of caste-based brutality—and the systemic failure to deliver justice