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Resignation in Protest: MP woman judge quits over elevation of senior she accused of harassment and discrimination
In a powerful act of protest, Judge Aditi Gajendra Sharma resigns after the elevation of a senior she accused of caste-based harassment, calling out the judiciary’s silence, systemic bias, and betrayal of its own ideals
Reason, emotion and history
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Sangh Parivar’s tortured bid to appropriate Dr Ambedkar
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Rohith’s death: We are all to blame
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Within hours of police mediating her return home, young woman from Tamil Nadu ‘killed by family for marrying Dalit man’
The woman victim, 19-year-old Aishwarya from Neyvaviduthi in Pattukottai, had fallen in love with Naveen, a 19-year-old Dalit man from Poovaloor village, Thanjavur. (File)
Assam: Post by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma casteist, promotes oppression?
A December 26 post on X by controversial chief minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, openly glorifying the “heroic” characteristics of the “Kshatriya” (dominant, “warrior-ruling” caste) and demeaning the Shudra (toiling, artisan sections of society) saying their duty is to "serve" Brahmins, Kshatriyas Vaishyas has generated outrage and controversy
Job ad for temple seeks Brahmins only!
The Kerala Devaswom Recruitment Board released an ad for the job of a cook which had the eligibility requirement to be Brahmin.
Caste Census Survey Result: 63% OBCs, 19% SCs and 1.68% STs constitute Bihar’s total population
CM Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav called it a “historical moment” while opposition term it as an “eye wash”; demands raised for nation-wide caste census
Caste, the cancer afflicting Sanatan Dharma
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Dalit youth hung upside down and tortured for alleged goat theft in Telangana
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Another instance of Dalit youth being beaten and tortured comes to light. Four people have been arrested in this case.
Continued Surge of Violence against Dalits Spans Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu
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Dalit boy and grandmother assaulted in Nanguneveli, Karur, Dalit women attacked in Satara, two more Dalits dead in Rajasthan, as violence against Dalits continues.
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Rule of Law
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India
Thousands of discrepancies in UP Voters Lists of 2022, widespread fraud alleges Akhilesh Yadav, former UP chief minister
On Monday, August 18, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav alleged widespread, evidence driven, voter discrepancies in voters lists of the state, also stating that his party had approached the ECI about these in 2022, soon after the state assembly polls but which had been simply ignored by the poll body. He was joined later in the day by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav who questioned the motives of the government and ECI while further detailing these gross irregularities and illegalities in Adityanath-ruled UP
Communal Organisations
Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.
Rule of Law
Caste and community creations of human beings, God is always neutral: Madras HC
If a temple is permitted to be visited by the general public, it assumes the character of a public temple, irrespective of the caste or community of the devotees, they must be permitted to offer their prayers to God, every Hindu irrespective of the caste or sect to which he belongs to, shall be entitled to enter any Hindu temple and offer worship therein – Madras High Court
Minorities
New Magnificent Churches Built Under Islamic Rule In Its Early Centuries
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