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Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana
A chapter in a major 30-year review of the PoA Act argues that institutional failures, rather than legislative gaps, remain the biggest obstacle to justice
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Caste attacks on Dalits continue: Panchayat to support rape and murder accused!
Hathras caste crimes continue as so called ‘Savarn Samaj’ holds pro-accused panchayat near Dalit victim’s village
Why are rapists and ‘upper-caste’ supremacists getting bolder in UP?
Two more raped in 24 hrs; Dalit women, children targeted even after UP CM Adityanath sets up SIT after Hathras horror
Thousands pay last respects to Dalit lawyer-activist Devji Maheshwari
Funeral took place day after Minaxiben Maheshwari sat on dharna, demanding arrest of last of the accused
I will not take my husband’s body till all accused are arrested: Minaxiben Maheshwari
Dalit Lawer Devji Maheshwari, was a senior activist of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF)
Uttar Pradesh’s alleged ‘Brahmin victimhood’ fuels saviour complex in Opposition parties
Not surprisingly, Samajwadi Party, Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party, have all spoke up for the plight of Brahmins, who are now demanding ‘weapons’ to ‘protect themselves
Combat caste-based discrimination: IAAAC to US tech CEOs
Indian-American anti-caste group urges companies to include as a factor in training about diversity and inclusion
Thakurs deny Dalit woman cremation, police initiate probe
The woman’s body was forced to be taken off the pyre as members of Thakur community objected
Nat woman denied cremation at ‘upper’ caste funeral ground in UP
Family was forced to remove the body from the pyre, and local officials appeared to support caste-based segregation “to maintain peace and tranquility”
ISKCON’s sanitised version of the caste system does not foster progress of the lower castes
Even while saying that the caste system is based on psycho-physical properties, it propagates the caste system which must be abolished by the roots
Karnataka’s Brahmins can get caste and income certificates, avail 10 percent EWS benefits
Karnataka State Brahmin Development Board had been set up before 2018 Assembly elections, by JD(S)-Congress govt
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