Dalit youths in Rajasthan are asserting their individuality by defying caste-based social conventions and taboos that robbed them of their dignity. For decades, bridegrooms from lower castes were forbidden to imitate the high castes, especially by riding a horse in wedding processions. The ‘logic’ apparently was that horse riding was symbolic of noble birth and […]
बिहार चुनाव मे 11 अप्रैल को कर रहे मतदान मे औरंगाबाद, नालंदा और जमुई के साथ गया 15 लाख मतदाताओं में से 30.33% प्रतिशत मतदान करनेवाले अनुसूचित जाति (एससी) के लिए आरक्षित एक निर्वाचन क्षेत्र है इस गाँव में कीचड़ वाली गली के बाईं ओर, राजगीर के रास्ते में वजीरगंज से थोड़ा आगे, गया […]
“No vote unless the Political parties include land rights to Dalits in their manifesto “. This was the demand of over two thousand people assembled in the famous Miller School groundsin Patna last Sunday (10th March) at the sixth state level conference organized by the Dalit Rights Forum”For the creation of a law for land […]
आवास की वैकल्पिक व्यवस्था के बगैर सड़क, रेलवे मार्ग, तटबंध, शमशान मे बसे लोगो को अपने घरो से बेदखल कर दिया जाना, निःसन्देह मानवाधिकार का उल्लंघन है वासभूमि स्वामित्व कानून निर्माण सम्मेलन मे शामिल प्रतिनिधियों ने प्रतिभागियो को संबोधित करते हुये कहा। आजादी के 71 सालों के बाद भी आबादी का बड़ा भाग जीवन […]
Patna: Dalit ire against ‘police atrocities’ following an incident of ‘stone pelting’ at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy is increasing. Local media reports say that NDA partner Jitan Ram Manjhi has used strong words against the state government for atrocities on Dalits by police and administration at Nandan village in Buxar district in the […]
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’ […]
