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Thursday, March 12, 2026
TopicDalit atrocities

Topic: Dalit atrocities

Anger over Dalit teen’s death spills over in Haryana, Rahul slams ‘BJP-RSS’s Manuwadi ideology’

While an First Information Report was lodged against 10 people, including the Dalit teenager, an Special Investigation Team has started probing the case.

Bullied for being Dalit—reservation alone isn’t a fix for a brewing mental health crisis

India's existing mental health system lacks a cultural understanding of caste and is insensitive to Dalit experiences. Also, many Dalits don't have the capital for long-term therapy.

Kolkata play about Dalit student suicide calls out Bhadralok hypocrisy on casteless Bengal

‘Oboyob’ offers no easy solutions. It prompts so-called Bengali liberals to accept their role in perpetuating caste atrocities.

MP govt has shown how to be sensitive in delivering justice in Dalit-Adivasi atrocity cases

Dalit-tribal politics isn’t trapped in Indira Gandhi’s Belchi moment. This is what the Congress doesn't get.

Swachh Bharat toilets without sanitation is why Dalits are at the receiving end

Modi government needs to extend the scope of the Swachh Bharat campaign and improve sanitation keeping in mind that many sanitation workers are Dalits.

Viral video of Dalit youth being thrashed splits open caste divide in Haryana village

Bajana Kalan: The viral video of a Dalit youth being stripped and beaten in a rural Sonepat shed brought swift action by Haryana Police,...

Why India’s politicians get away with casteist slurs and abuses on Dalit leaders

India is full of Savarna leaders who defame professional and social background of Dalit-backward politicians without facing any backlash.

Columbia University teaches Ambedkar’s biography, but few in India have even read it

A casteist and ideological bias has ensured that Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography is a celebrated work while Ambedkar's memoir is hardly known.

You can be a Hindu nationalist and an Ambedkarite both

It would be a disservice to the legacy of BR Ambedkar if the present generation of Communists is allowed to monopolise Ambedkarism.

Hundreds march for ‘justice for Sanjali’, the 15-yr-old Dalit girl burnt alive in Agra

Students said the protest wasn’t about caste or community, but about women’s safety and getting justice for the murdered girl, Sanjali Chanakya

On Camera

Prada learnt its lesson. Where are ‘humara culture’ Indians on Ralph Lauren’s jhumka?

The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.

Floundering PM Internship Scheme used less than 1% of Rs 10,831 crore set aside for it in FY25-26

The Standing Committee on Finance tabled its report on Demands for Grants (2026-27) in the Lok Sabha Thursday.

India-Bangladesh relations on track—After military intel chief’s visit, envoy goes to Army War College

In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.