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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

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Discrimination: Soldier’s Funeral Reveals India’s Outsize, Outcaste Problem

Earlier this week, when upper-caste villagers in the western...

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From Manu’s Brahminism, to Nietzsche, to Hitler: Dr. BR Ambedkar

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UN Makes History on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

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Custodial deaths: Kerala’s own Emergency continues decades after Rajan’s disappearance

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

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