Topic: Dalits
What about Dalit priest at Ayodhya Ram Mandir? Even Communist intellectuals won’t demand it
It is being said that the Ram Mandir will be more significant than the Vatican of Rome and the Mecca of Saudi Arabia. But will it change the status of Dalits and Shudras?
Dalits have a special place in the new Hindutva matrix. Ram Mandir is proof of that
Besides Kameshwar Chaupal, a Dalit member of the temple's trust, SC and OBC leaders such as Kalyan Singh, Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar were at the helm of Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
Not a single Dalit in 60% of Kolkata’s neighbourhoods. How caste divides Indian cities
Indian urban localities are as segregated as our villages. Caste is still an important factor in deciding the organisation of spatial environment in cities.
TikTokers dubbed ‘Shudras of internet’: Indians didn’t spare even social media from casteism
The irony is that social media, which was supposed to be a democratic space for every section of society, has been categorised into caste hierarchies.
‘Police tried to hush up Nagaur Dalit torture’ — Pilot’s fact-finding report finds lapses
Deputy CM Sachin Pilot has submitted the confidential report of the fact-finding committee on the Nagaur Dalit torture case to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
How Nitish Kumar got Bihar BJP to oppose NRC and back UPA-era NPR format
On Tuesday, the Bihar assembly passed a resolution to become the first NDA state against the proposed NRC, and in favour of the 2010 NPR.
How Tamil Nadu’s Hindutva forces are using the Dravidian movement to get Dalits on their side
'Hindutva and Dalits', edited by Anand Teltumbde, talks about how the Sangh Parivar is politically and ideologically manipulating the Dalit movement in India.
UP Dalits’ attitude to bloc voting different from Tamil Nadu. Research tells us why
Amit Ahuja in 'Mobilizing the Marginalized' throws light on why Dalits' bloc voting in states that have seen social movements is distinct from that in non-movement states.
SC on reservations: Does politics hamper objective review of India’s quota for Dalits, OBCs?
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Narendra Modi government saying that it is “in the DNA” of the BJP and RSS to end the reservation policy.
Dalit-Muslim unity is an opposition charade. CAA and Ram Mandir trust blow the lie
Established Dalit leadership is not opposing the CAA, and misadventures of Chandrashekhar Azad will have little implications on the sentiments of Dalits.
Students in Kashmir attended regular classes for only two weeks in the last one year
The price Kashmir’s economy paid for 5 August: ₹40,000 cr and unemployment levels twice the national average.
India isn’t facing up to the true financial cost of Covid
Truth is currently as scarce as capital in India. The govt doesn’t have the appetite for large-scale socialisation of private losses, lest the opposition accuse PM Modi of cronyism.
Defence
India, China generals meet today as ‘PLA keeps up Pangong incursions, blocks army at Depsang’
The fresh round of dialogue comes as India and China have hit a stalemate in military talks with regard to disengagement at multiple flashpoints in Ladakh.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.