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Topic: Dalit

Haryana govt asks students on admission forms if their parents are in ‘unclean occupations’

The forms were withdrawn after widespread criticism; critics say the forms could have resulted in discrimination against students.

Indian science fiction writers are better known to White readers than Indian ones: Mimi Mondal

Had you heard of me or my book before the Hugo Award nomination, asks Mimi Mondal.

Dalit backlash: Govt to move top court this week to undo faculty reservation order

Govt will seek a stay on the Allahabad HC order, following which UGC announced a controversial formula of reservation in faculty posts at universities. 

Why MP after Dalit MP is rising in revolt against Modi’s caste coalition in Uttar Pradesh

Numerous Dalit MPs of the BJP have spoken out against their own party’s govt. But what are the real reasons behind the MPs’ ‘revolt’? ThePrint analyses.

Cracks appear in Modi-Shah’s Hindu consensus as caste begins to overpower religion again

BJP overpowered caste divisions to sweep 2014. But the Dalits are angry and the divides are back in play, spelling trouble for 2019.

How Dalit leader Savitri Bai Phule became a rebel with a cause within the BJP

The 37-year-old BJP MP from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has recently made headlines with her scathing attack on the party’s stand on Dalit issues.

As Dalit protests spread rapidly, Centre seeks review of top court order on SC/ST Act

Last week, Union minister and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan moved the top court in his personal capacity seeking a review of the court ruling.

Dalit history threatens the powerful. That is why they want to erase, destroy and jail it

In order for Dalit Bahujans to have a future, we must know our past and have self-determination over the knowledge we build.

‘Listen to the kids, bruh’: Even Kanye West knows how to treat students better than India

A quick search of the last few years of student protests will throw up a common theme of dampened dissent, active slander, and disenfranchisement of students as political stakeholders in the world they live in.

Indians have imported casteism to the US & a black journalist writes on the need to ban it

Civil rights laws do not explicitly ban discrimination based on caste. It was not seen as an issue in America when those laws were written.

On Camera

I finally got to say goodbye to Zubeen Garg. ‘Roi Roi Binale’ left me in tears

I wasn't home when others could pay their respects to the singer or catch a last glimpse. The movie was my way of accessing him one final time.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

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.