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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?
CJP’s new map tracks Caste-based Hate Crimes across India in 2021
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These are not figures from a century ago, but from the past year; Hate crimes against Dalits and Adivasis continue even today!
Dalit man forced to enter and clean sewer in Gujarat
Complaint filed after independent MLA Jignesh Mevani intervenes; the inhuman practice of forcing Dalits into manual scavenging continues even today
Dalits and Adivasis suffered violence and discrimination even in 2021
Though most of these attacks emerge from societal prejudices and historic alienation, a dispensation that has encouraged a state of impunity to targeted crimes of the most marginalised has made matters more acute
Two young Dalit girls attacked, where is the outrage?
Dalit woman abducted and killed, allegedly by "upper caste" men in Bihar; Dalit teen molested in UP
Dhinkia: A story of perseverance against administrative oppression
Faced with continuous conflicts, villagers remind authorities of their forest and legal rights
End police oppression! FIAN Int. stands with Odisha’s adivasis
The human rights body was disappointed by the lack of inaction to protect people’s forest and land rights
Odisha Police beat up Adivasi villagers
Tired of arbitrary arrests by police forces, villagers ask why dissenters are implicated in false cases
Tougher than Steel: Odisha villagers condemn govt’s to attempts to usurp their land
Civil society activists decry state police’s brutal attack on unarmed Dhinkia villagers
UP adivasis lament the slow grant of forest ownership rights under FRA
Hundreds of UP forest-dwellers celebrated ‘Forest Rights Day’ on Wednesday
Sustainability dominates Forest Rights movement agenda
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Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
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