Gujarat: He was a Dalit, and he had the guts to contest and win the recent village panchayat elections, becoming a sarpanch in upper castes-dominated Varsada village, so they brutally murdered him. A 25-year-old Jaysukh Madhad, a Dalit Sarpanch in a village in Amreli district of Gujarat, was hacked to death by people of other […]
Chanting “Jai Bhim” and seeking independence from atrocities and discrimination, thousands of Dalits gathered in Una (Gujarat) to celebrate India’s 70th Independence Day on Monday. A 10-day Dalit Pride Yatra started from Ahmedabad on August 4 culminated in Una where seven Dalits were publicly flogged for skinning a dead cow by a local ‘cow vigilante’ […]
