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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicDalit

Topic: Dalit

Dalit boy, Muslim girl and a Thakur panchayat: How forbidden love rocked this UP village

The girl claims to have eloped of her own will, but the families remain divided as caste equations trump young love.

Radhika Vemula is no grieving, compensation-seeking mother. And this scares the BJP

Piyush Goyal’s sudden sympathy for Rohith Vemula’s mother, often discredited by his party colleagues, betrays nervousness.

This popular all-women Dalit musical band in Bihar has a packed wedding season ahead

The ‘Sargam Band’ has 10 women in their 30s - all from Dhibra village in Danapur near Patna.

How Bimal Roy’s Sujata and Pa Ranjith’s Kaala show changing Dalit politics in 60 years

The long shadow of the Gandhian thought is distinctly recognisable in Sujata, a film about overcoming prejudice.

Kaala tells Bollywood to wake up and smell the caste

Pa. Ranjith’s Kaala drives home its point on Dalit politics very clearly. But it may have a few messages for Bollywood too.

Kaala has mercilessly trounced Hindutva and Rajinikanth’s so-called ‘spiritual politics’

Rajinikanth’s complete cooperation with Pa. Ranjith and his political ideology shows that he hopes to reap political dividend.

Kaala is a brilliant cultural response to Brahminical ideology: Jignesh Mevani

A lot of Dalit activists and progressive forces will watch this film and see a ‘Kaala’ within them too.

Post-Kairana, BJP MLA gets poetic about party’s problems in Uttar Pradesh

Gopamau legislator Shyam Prakash says CM Yogi Adityanath is helpless, blames Amit Shah aide Sunil Bansal for state of administration.

RSS tells Modi’s ministers to get real about Dalit outreach & take care of middle class

Another important topic that came up for discussion was the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, a pet cause the RSS feels the government hasn’t done much to pursue, the sources added.

Uttar Pradesh Dalit families left homeless by ‘mysterious fire’ start hunger strike

The families are struggling for food and water and have laid siege to the block development office seeking rehabilitation. They have also rejected the...

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Chinese don’t want Xi to fall for Trump’s G2 gimmicks—’intentional malice’, potential trap

The central theme emerging from Chinese online discourse is that while Trump may now acknowledge China’s strength and treat it as an equal, this recognition is driven more by fear and strategic anxiety than by genuine intent for collaboration.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.