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Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

Godse library shut down following public outrage

Godse Gyanshala, honouring Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin was closed two days after inauguration, reading material seized

Bhima Koregaon case: Dalit group demands action against Manohar ‘Sambhaji’ Bhide

Republican Yuva Morcha asks why have the police not named Bhide in a chargesheet, demands Maharashtra CM look into the matter

Madhya Pradesh: On being refused water, four gang-rape, brutalise woman with iron rod

She ran a small shop from her shanty built on a hillock in a desolate area in Sidhi district

UP Police allegedly assault Adivasi women

Police arrested the women for protesting an unauthorised construction on forest land in Lilasi in Sonbhadra district

After Godse ‘temple’ fiasco, a library dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin

Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha wants youth to read about, and be inspired by Nathuram Godse’s ‘true nationalism’

MHA credits Home Minister with quelling Delhi riots, public investigations find otherwise

Ministry of Home Affairs Review 2020 hails Amit Shah for handling the communal riots well, but three independent fact finding reports countered that months ago

Safai Karamchari Andolan campaigns against dry latrines

100-day campaign aims to end the unfair burden on Dalit women

CBI court’s Babri Masjid demolition judgment challenged 

A Revision application has been filed before the Allahabad High Court against the CBI special court's decision to acquit all accused in the case

Another interfaith couple receives protection by the Allahabad HC

The court noted that the couple was being harassed and directed the SP to look into their grievances and offer them protection if necessary

Remove Chandramukhi Devi from NCW: Anganwadi Workers group

Group demands fast track trial of the Budaun rape and murder case, adequate compensation and a job for the victim’s family

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Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

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When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework