Topic: Dalit

Home to Punjab's largest Ravidasia congregation, the dera has evolved into a symbol of Dalit assertion, religious identity and electoral significance.

The circumstances surrounding Lalita Gautam's death & subsequent protests have become a hot potato for Yogi govt in Uttar Pradesh.

The question of caste has remained in the shadows in the official rules of conduct as well as within the labour rights movement led by the ASHA workers themselves.

A person on X said, ‘So the self-proclaimed Gen Z leader is against merit’.

Introduced across six cities, Bihar’s Pink buses were meant to provide safer public transport for women. Yet a year later, the transport department has managed to recruit only six women drivers for 100 buses, most of which are still operated by men.

I have often felt that success for a Dalit person comes with a strange moral demand: be proof without being inconvenient. That is an impossible assignment.

At a Heritage Dialogues talk, author Shahu Patole and food entrepreneur Aruna Tirkey discussed Dalit and Adivasi food traditions and why many still hide or disown what they eat.

Bench says that the claims of allurement surfaced months later after FIR was filed, raising doubts about the basis for invoking Uttar Pradesh’s 2021 anti-conversion law.

BR Ambedkar valued the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. This amendment granted equality to African Americans after the Civil War.

Robert Clive defeated India and didn’t question caste. Mahatma Macaulay envisioned India as a free nation and critiqued caste. That explains why Indians hate one more than the other.