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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?
Kundli murder: NCSC Chief writes to Punjab DGP over villagers denying last rites to Dalit victim
On October 15, a Dalit labourer’s mutilated body was found at the Kundli border and the Nihang community accused him of disrespecting the Guru Granth Sahib
Haryana: “Upper castes” booked for social boycott of 150 Dalit families
The "upper castes" were trying to build pressure upon the Dalits to withdraw a case that was filed against one of them
Hate watch: BJP man makes racist, anti-Dalit social media posts about Dr. Udit Raj
The former MP says he will soon file a police complaint, and social media threats are just the tip of the abuse iceberg
Jal, Jungle, Zameen: Chhattisgarh Adivasis march 300kms to oppose coal mining projects
Nearly 350 members of tribal communities started walking from Sarguja and Korba districts nine days ago, to meet the Governor and the CM
Dilution of environmental laws, a persistent tactic: AIUFWP
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India farmers, Adivasis and forest dwellers condemn FCA draft changes
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100 days on, Piri villagers still await justice for Brahmadev Singh
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Uttar Pradesh: Dalit school children thrashed, made to sit separately in Amethi
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Internationalising Caste
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Can you hear the steady drumbeat of Institutional Casteism?
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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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