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.
Jagadish Gowda allegedly held a group captive after workers refused to work for him, protesting his abuse. A woman’s mother claimed her daughter had an abortion due to the assault.
The victim, who was in class 12, left home to buy vegetables Saturday afternoon but did not return and was later found hanging from a tree by her family.
Modi government needs to extend the scope of the Swachh Bharat campaign and improve sanitation keeping in mind that many sanitation workers are Dalits.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
There is gross exaggeration in the article. I have been in recruitment for the past 15 years and the author is being liberal with the truth in claiming a recruiter asked for a candidate’s caste. No one does that.
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” – simplified statement of Goodhart’s research paper by Marilyn Strathern.
The author has made the same mistake. Target is to have a caste-free society by enabling suppressed castes and measure of it’s achievement is number of lower-castes’ in higher education/position. We seem to think that just by putting lower caste students in IITs, we have done our job.
It is incorrect to say that suicides occur only because of harassment and study pressure does not play any part. Instead of enabling Dalits by providing good basic education and financial/emotional support to take up higher challenges, we give them crutches of reservation in higher education. With weak base, the top collapses.
Reservation ALONE isn’t a fix for “Annihilation of cast” as well. Vote bank driven reservation policy is not eradicating caste, it is making the caste firmer. It needs to be revised – not removed.
There is gross exaggeration in the article. I have been in recruitment for the past 15 years and the author is being liberal with the truth in claiming a recruiter asked for a candidate’s caste. No one does that.
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” – simplified statement of Goodhart’s research paper by Marilyn Strathern.
The author has made the same mistake. Target is to have a caste-free society by enabling suppressed castes and measure of it’s achievement is number of lower-castes’ in higher education/position. We seem to think that just by putting lower caste students in IITs, we have done our job.
It is incorrect to say that suicides occur only because of harassment and study pressure does not play any part. Instead of enabling Dalits by providing good basic education and financial/emotional support to take up higher challenges, we give them crutches of reservation in higher education. With weak base, the top collapses.
Reservation ALONE isn’t a fix for “Annihilation of cast” as well. Vote bank driven reservation policy is not eradicating caste, it is making the caste firmer. It needs to be revised – not removed.