Hate & Harmony

Two harrowing stories of brutality emerge from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as a 25-year-old Dalit woman is found dead in Agra, allegedly murdered by a police constable. Similarly, in Bihar's Sitamarhi, public outrage rises as a police inspector is under investigation for assaulting a Dalit woman at a marketplace.

A war of conscience and powerful words has broken out among the Indian Catholic clergy after Prime Minister Modi’s Christmas invite (December 25, 2023) to select church heads, who then circulated videos bowing in abject praise to the leader; a public campaign “Not in Our Name” was sought to be curtailed by some priests, leading to a powerful Open Letter from Father Anand in Varanasi

Speakers also criticised both the previous Congress and BJP governments for failing to protect forests and Adivasi rights.

Conservative and right-wing groups rise in power across the world, a growing number of citizens are inevitably consuming and accepting the ideology they seek to preach.

A month-long campaign of a multitude of online and offline events  called Jana Gana Mana Abhiyan has been launched in an effort to re-vitalize citizens who take pride in India’s rich, diverse, plural cultural heritage and work towards a society based on constitutional values. 

The servitude of non-Brahmins to Brahmins has no place in Ambedkar’s Constitution, a fact Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma unconsciously or consciously overlooked when he wrote a post on his social media account, telling the Shudras that their natural duty was to serve the upper castes. This was close to ten days ago.

Previous posts of accused with PM Modi, Minister Smriti Irani and BJP president JP Nadda go viral, opposition slams BJP for protecting rapists, mainstream media maintains mum

Incidents of violence against Dalits continue unabated across the country and continue to receive less media coverage. Sabrang India brings to you a roundup of incidents of reported crimes against Dalits.

“Too vocal” for a job, rejected from publishing because their book was too critical, untouchability at a university - Dalit narratives of caste from 2023 reveal that caste, perforates through all aspects of social and political life.

Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and recently, Telangana –all opposition ruled states -- have made it free for the women to travel in buses operated as part of Public Transport.