Dalit Anger

A 45-year-old Dalit woman died on Monday, a day after she was allegedly thrashed by two men angered by her refusal to convince her son to withdraw an old case registered against them under the Atrocities Act in Gujarat's Bhavnagar, an officer said.

The 20-year-old Dalit woman who died days after being savagely assaulted by a group of men, triggering nationwide anger and protests, spoke about being raped for the first more than a week after the incident, a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer said on Thursday, hours after a forensic report of her viscera suggested that she was not raped or gang...

Derided, despised and shunned for centuries, Dalits are increasingly willing to make their voices heard. And making up close to a sixth of the country's population, they are a crucial swing vote. Jatav is hoping that determination and a wave of fresh anger helps rally Dalits against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this year's election.

What Madhya Pradesh is reaffirming, ahead of the general election, that if alliances will be a major theme of every political gambit that comes into play, the other will be caste.

On his wedding day, a Dalit man made the 'mistake' of riding a horse at a village in Rajasthan. His celebratory act soon got him into trouble after some villagers, apparently angered by what they assumed to be a hijack of privilege meant only for them, forced him to get off the horse

A day after he inaugurated a national memorial for Dr BR Ambedkar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today eulogised the Dalit icon on his birth anniversary for making provisions in the constitution to protect the rights of backward classes.

The BJP Dalit MPs remonstrating the party publicly offers a gigantic leg up for the opposition in its proclamations that Modi's is an anti-Dalit party.

Against the backdrop of recent Dalit protests, political parties in Bihar appear to be in competition with each other to woo the community.And the most politically correct way of doing that seems to be offering tributes to Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar on April 14, his birth anniversary.

BJP president Amit Shah today began a two-day tour in Karnataka's old Mysuru region, a stronghold of the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular, with a spot of trouble at an interaction with Dalit activists.

Sonakhan, Chhattisgarh: The village of Sonakhan in Chhattisgarh hardly looks like the site of a gold rush. There are no gun-toting ruffians, nor squalid camps of desperate fortune-seekers. The dusty village with its distinct reddish soil, is a collection of modest brick homes and small patches of cultivated land amid scraggly forest. But the villag...

Superstar Rajinikanth's visit to northern Sri Lanka next month to hand over keys of 150 houses built for displaced Tamil is turning into a controversy. On Friday, a prominent Dalit leader in Tamil Nadu asked him to cancel his visit over concerns that the cine star's presence at a high-profile event could lead the world to believe things were back t...

The signs of a brutal assault are all too visible on the body of the 15-year-old Dalit boy. It has been more than 48 hours since he was attacked in his village by two young men infuriated at his family's decision to boycott lifting carcases of animals but he is still in shock.

Radhika Vemula, whose young son Rohith committed suicide at a university in Hyderabad in January, held top honours as she unfurled the national flag this morning at the grounds of a large state-run school in Una.

The rapidly-growing Dalit agitation in the Gujarat has found a face - 35-year-old Jignesh Mewani. The journalist-turned activist hasn't halted his Una Chalo Dalit Padyatra (a Dalit foot march to Una), despite running a viral fever for the last two days.

The criminal exclusion of tribal communities in decision-making processes is true not only in connection with the CAF Bill. Tribal voices were ignored when the amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act was pushed through, depriving them of their basic right to consent or withhold consent on takeover of their land.

A 45-year-old Dalit woman died on Monday, a day after she was allegedly thrashed by two men angered by her refusal to convince her son to withdraw an old case registered against them under the Atrocities Act in Gujarat's Bhavnagar, an officer said.

The 20-year-old Dalit woman who died days after being savagely assaulted by a group of men, triggering nationwide anger and protests, spoke about being raped for the first more than a week after the incident, a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer said on Thursday, hours after a forensic report of her viscera suggested that she was not raped or gang...

Derided, despised and shunned for centuries, Dalits are increasingly willing to make their voices heard. And making up close to a sixth of the country's population, they are a crucial swing vote. Jatav is hoping that determination and a wave of fresh anger helps rally Dalits against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this year's election.

What Madhya Pradesh is reaffirming, ahead of the general election, that if alliances will be a major theme of every political gambit that comes into play, the other will be caste.

On his wedding day, a Dalit man made the 'mistake' of riding a horse at a village in Rajasthan. His celebratory act soon got him into trouble after some villagers, apparently angered by what they assumed to be a hijack of privilege meant only for them, forced him to get off the horse

A day after he inaugurated a national memorial for Dr BR Ambedkar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today eulogised the Dalit icon on his birth anniversary for making provisions in the constitution to protect the rights of backward classes.

The BJP Dalit MPs remonstrating the party publicly offers a gigantic leg up for the opposition in its proclamations that Modi's is an anti-Dalit party.

Against the backdrop of recent Dalit protests, political parties in Bihar appear to be in competition with each other to woo the community.And the most politically correct way of doing that seems to be offering tributes to Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar on April 14, his birth anniversary.

BJP president Amit Shah today began a two-day tour in Karnataka's old Mysuru region, a stronghold of the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular, with a spot of trouble at an interaction with Dalit activists.

Sonakhan, Chhattisgarh: The village of Sonakhan in Chhattisgarh hardly looks like the site of a gold rush. There are no gun-toting ruffians, nor squalid camps of desperate fortune-seekers. The dusty village with its distinct reddish soil, is a collection of modest brick homes and small patches of cultivated land amid scraggly forest. But the villag...

Superstar Rajinikanth's visit to northern Sri Lanka next month to hand over keys of 150 houses built for displaced Tamil is turning into a controversy. On Friday, a prominent Dalit leader in Tamil Nadu asked him to cancel his visit over concerns that the cine star's presence at a high-profile event could lead the world to believe things were back t...

The signs of a brutal assault are all too visible on the body of the 15-year-old Dalit boy. It has been more than 48 hours since he was attacked in his village by two young men infuriated at his family's decision to boycott lifting carcases of animals but he is still in shock.

Radhika Vemula, whose young son Rohith committed suicide at a university in Hyderabad in January, held top honours as she unfurled the national flag this morning at the grounds of a large state-run school in Una.

The rapidly-growing Dalit agitation in the Gujarat has found a face - 35-year-old Jignesh Mewani. The journalist-turned activist hasn't halted his Una Chalo Dalit Padyatra (a Dalit foot march to Una), despite running a viral fever for the last two days.

The criminal exclusion of tribal communities in decision-making processes is true not only in connection with the CAF Bill. Tribal voices were ignored when the amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act was pushed through, depriving them of their basic right to consent or withhold consent on takeover of their land.