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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

Stop the deification and appropriation of Babasaheb: Dalit youth to the Sangh Parivar

On January 22, 2016, graduate students of the Babasaheb...

Caste Reverberates on TISS Campus, counter allegations against Dalit student made

Through January 2016, the campus of the Tata Institute...

Why Ambedkar rejected, outright Gandhi’s views on Temple entry

Image: Ram RahmanGandhi’s refusal to accept that caste was...

Cast Out Caste: Allegations of Abusive Behaviour among Mass Communication students in Delhi

Image; Dominic Lipinski/PA   Dalit and Adivasi write to the...

When Delhi Police act as the Sangh’s Private Army

  An open letter to young protestors who were brutally...

It’s Official: The Brahmanisation of Government

A Dalit groom wears a helmet as upper caste...

हम जब नींद में थे, लालटेन बुझ गयी…

प्रकाश सावमयंक सक्सेनाप्रकाश साव से मुलाक़ात का श्रेय, रंगकर्मी...

Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report

  In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up...

The Death of Merit: Dalit Suicides in institutes of higher learning

  This article written by K.P. Girija (girijakp@gmail.com)  was the cover...

Untouchable God

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