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From caste to race: Reading ‘Black & Buddhist’ through an Indian lens
A few days ago, while visiting a local library in a relatively small town on the eastern coast of the United States, the person who took me there asked...
To include or exclude: process of including a Community in SC or ST list
Established procedures and a collective assessment by the statutory NCSC and NCST Commissions, RGI is needed before the union government may accept a proposal for inclusion sent by any state government
Haldwani minorities fear deaths to be higher than official figures, narrate tales of police brutality & complicity: Fact-finding report
Several testimonies before the fact-finding team narrated the administration’s targeted attack on the evening of February 8, when officers arrived with bulldozers, sanitation workers and large police “protection” to demolition the mosque and madrasa “despite the matter being sub-judice;” today, Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area suffers in silence as connectivity is cut with the outside world
Dalit groom attacked, threatened, and beaten off a horse at his wedding in Gujarat
A group of higher caste men attacked a Dalit man at his wedding and forced him to get off his horse because they did not think Dalits can be allowed to ride horses. The police have arrested four of the accused as of now
Maharashtra Mob Violence: Muslim student and a fruit vendor, forced into chanting ‘Jai Sri Ram’
The police have filed a case against a group of people in Maharashtra’s Parbhani for assaulting a young teenager and then later assaulting a fruit seller within a span of 30 minutes.
Tiruppur district administration breaks down ‘Untouchability Wall’
The revenue department’s takes a step closer to dismantling casteist practices. A demand to bring down the caste wall was advocated by several advocacy groups against untouchability
Telangana: Transgender individual brutally lynched by mob in Nizamabad
A transgender person, Raju, accused of kidnapping children was killed by a mob who attacked them. They succumbed to their injuries despite being taken to the hospital.
Haldwani: Police allege planned mob attack, as local Muslims state police harassing and detaining family members without evidence
As BJP leaders encourage the idea that the protests were a ‘planned conspiracy’, 300 people have already migrated from the area citing fear and violence. Local Muslim residents allege that the police are harassing them and forcing their way into their homes.
Why Muslims Should Debate the UCC
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BJP’s Nitish Rane says Nikhil Wagle ‘got away easily’
Senior journalist Nikhil Wagle and his two associated were attacked by a mob when they were travelling to an event called Nirbhay Bano on February 9.
10 arrested after attack against senior Marathi journalist
The police have arrested 10 people after journalist Nikhil Wagle’s car was attacked in Pune last week. However, Wagle himself was subjected to a new FIR filed against him after the attack for violating a police notice
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