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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed
Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently
Denying Forest Dwellers Rights, Gauhati HC orders removal of Adivasi “encroachers”
Denying forest dwellers rights in the Chariduar Reserved Forest, the Guwahati HC has directed the evacuation of “encroachers
I refuse, I reject and I resist! (a poem by Abhay Xaxa)
A day after the shocking news of the death of research scholar and activist, Abhay Xaxa, we bring you his poem
Challenges to Bahujan mission today: Kanshiram’s 87th birth anniversary
On Kanshiram's 87th birth anniversary, March 15, 2020, the author asks if the BSP, founded by him, has the vision to rise above the narrow personal interests of its leadership?
Six months of being hunted, not yet vanquished: Stan Swamy
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Dalits attacked by 300 men in UP village, 13 upper-caste men arrested
More than 300 men from the Thakur community attacked villagers with sticks and hammers mostly women, after a fallout during a Bhim Katha event organized by the Dalits
Sisterhood unites to fight oppression: Forest workers meet Shaheen Bagh protesters
Dalit and Adivasi forest workers express solidarity with anti-CAA activists as even they rarely have 70-year-old documents to stake claim to forest land.
Adivasis ousted from both home & land rights through a draconian law: Gujarat
In the guise of tourism, the new Statue of Unity Act not only illegally converts a forested area over which the local tribal population has constitutionally guaranteed rights into an ‘urban’ area in which they will need government permission to do anything but legalizes evictions
Dalit groups call for Bharat Bandh post SC order on reservations
In a February 7 order, the SC said that courts cannot give directions compelling states to reserve jobs for SC / STs
Illegal Arrest of a penniless Adivasi: MP HC Court penalises govt officials, orders reparation
The Court used the Jurisprudential concept of ‘Constitutional Tort’, and said that since the State has arrogantly deprived an innocent person of his Liberty, the aggrieved person must be compensated for the loss of it’ Husan, an Adivasi has been granted Rs 5,00,000 as compensation for being deprived of his personal liberty.
Are Adivasis Hindus?
A separate column for Adivasis (Aboriginis) must be included in the forthcoming Census 2020 as it was in 1951
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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed
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