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Topic: Dalits

New SC commission chief has this message for IIT panel: Don’t forget a Dalit wrote Constitution

Vijay Sampla, who took charge as NCSC chairperson Wednesday, questioned an IIT committee’s suggestion to exempt faculty from caste-based reservation.

Constitution guarantees reservation but 0% OBC professors in central universities, data shows

In ‘The Shudras’, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppusamy write about the aftermath of the Mandal and the predicament of India’s productive castes.

Can a Dalit man and an upper-caste woman be in love? Another thing Tandav gets wrong

Tandav has landed in controversy. But it gets a lot wrong about lower-castes in India that has just flown under the radar.

With Bihar success, CPI(ML) has smartly blended radicalism and pragmatic politics

CPI(ML) Liberation won 12 seats in Bihar despite relentless propaganda through terms such as ‘Naxalites’, ‘terrorist sympathisers’, ‘China-funded Maoists’, 'tukde-tukde gang'.

Dalit voters will be the X factor in Bihar election — they vote differently than in UP

In UP, Dalit political mobilisation was based on Ambedkarism. In Bihar, it was based on Marxism. That explains the voting patterns.

10 years after caste-based violence, Dalits of Haryana’s Mirchpur get plots — but at a price

About 100 of 258 families who fled Mirchpur were given plots near Dhandoor village on 15 October. The new colony has been named after BJP's ideological icon Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Why Chandrashekhar Azad’s entry in Bihar polls should worry Mayawati

BJP's image among Dalits has suffered a dent due to Adityanath's Thakurwaadi image while Congress has failed to go beyond tokenism. This could help Mayawati, but for Azad's rise.

Punjab MLA Khaira questions clean chit to minister in scholarship ‘scam’, seeks judicial probe

Citing details from ThePrint article analysing two reports related to the Dalit scholarship 'scam', Sukhpal Singh Khaira said probe should be conducted by a sitting HC judge.

Uttar Pradesh CM, his police say no one was raped, for them she was ‘no one’, says Rahul

Attacking the Yogi Adithyanath govt over Hathras gang-rape case, Rahul Gandhi said the shameful truth is many Indians do not consider Dalits, Muslims and tribals to be human.

Headless Scheduled Castes panel raises vigilance over crimes against Dalits after Hathras case

The NCSC officials are looking at cases of violence and atrocities against SCs which the body can take suo moto cognizance of.

On Camera

RSS betrayed Jayaprakash Narayan. He failed to de-communalise it, died a broken man

Today, JP’s dream of ‘total revolution’ lies shattered beyond recognition. His ‘devil’s bargain’ with the 'forces of evil' cost India dearly.

60% increase in India’s carbon emissions by 2050, coal to remain top energy source: BP Energy Outlook

The country will account for 12 percent of global energy demand by 2050 from 7 percent in 2023, adds BP report.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.