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?

TN: Human faeces dumped in water tank meant for Dalits

The incident came to light after a young boy fell ill after drinking the water

‘Forcible Conversions’ in Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts in Chhattisgarh – Part II

In the previous article, we saw that forcible conversions...

Gujarat: Four people detained for beating up Dalit youth in Vadodara

In a video that has now gone viral, seven “upper caste” men can be seen physically assaulting a Dalit man in a public space

‘Forcible Conversions’ in Narayanpur and Chhattisgarh – Part 1

The first part of a special report after a fact-finding team’s visit to the Congress-ruled state in central India  

UP school teachers abuse Dalit students daily, no police action yet

The police arrived at the spot to disperse the community members, however instead of filing suo moto complaint, said that no written complaint has been filed by victims

India’s First Draft Bill for Geo-heritage Conservation Ignores Rights of Adivasi Communities

The absence of focus in the Bill on participatory governance, as a possible model for the conservation of geologically important areas, has been pointed out by experts.

Real Impact, Real Change: CJP’s year of monitoring violations: a review

Approaching several authorities to curtail hate speech and demand action against those guilty of targeted violence, CJP has had an action-packed year, and achieved tangible results

Court Inquiry report confirms Dalit labour activist Shiv Kumar’s allegations of custodial torture

In the report it is stated that it appeared that the doctors examining Kumar seemed to have danced to the tunes of  the police officials and also questioned the Magistrate’s role in granting Kumar’s remand.

Weaponised Rhetoric, Absent Evidence: ‘Urban Naxals’ are a political invention

Despite repeated political rhetoric, two separate parliamentary replies reveal that the Union Home Ministry neither defines nor maintains data on so-called "Urban Naxals

Dalit family attacked, women beaten in Rajasthan’s Alwar

Further, the accused is alleged to have made a video of the beating and uploaded it on social media.

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks

Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?

Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault

The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’

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.