Caste

Beyond the ‘plum’ posting: Why the caste lens still defines bureaucratic success

Following my recent blog on former IAS bureaucrat Atanu Chakraborty’s sudden exit as non-executive chairman of HDFC Bank, a few colleagues from the Gujarat cadre — mostly those I...

Two Dalits Hacked To Death In Tamil Nadu For Sitting Cross Legged In Front Of An Upper Caste Hindu

Two dalits were killed in Tamil Nadu’s Kachanatham village...

Eyewitness narrates instances of state repression before the “Naxal” encounter in Jharkhand

The following is an eye-witness report as narrated to Dr.P.M.Antony,...

Honor’ killing in Catholic family shocks Kerala

India (Kerala): Dalit man found dead in a stream...

NWMI demands and end to the Online Abuse and Intimidation of Masrat Zahra

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) has...

“Ruling classes and castes use reservations as a prop to inflict more violence upon dalits”: Anand Teltumbde

The writer in conversation with Souradeep Roy   Anand Teltumbde latest...

Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ is in Jail, But Bhim Army Marches On

With the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP regime in UP openly...

Targeted Violence Against a Dalit Youth, Thrashed for adding ‘sinh’ to name: Gujarat

Yet again, a Dalit youth from Dholka in Ahmeabad district was...

Notice to Gujarat over Dalit Man’s Lynching: NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday, May...

A Video Again, Shows Dalit Couple Tied Up, Flogged, Man Dies: Gujarat

The Dalit man is shown being brutally flogged by...

Dalits under Hindutva

Dalits or the untouchables in India, as the Hindu...

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