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Made In Heaven Makers Reject Dalit Writer's Credit Claim: "Pallavi Is Fictional" - Read Rebuttal
"We are deeply disturbed with the misleading reports and comments in context of author Yashica Dutt claiming formal credit," the makers wrote
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Reinstate Texts By Mahasweta Devi, Dalit Writers, Appeal Academicians
Over 1,100 academicians, writers and civil society members have written to Delhi University's acting vice-chancellor, urging him to reinstate the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bama and Sukirtharani in the English (Honours) syllabus.
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Cops Register Case Against Dalit Writer Kancha Ilaiah Over His Book
The Hyderabad Police has registered a case against prominent Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah for allegedly hurting religious feelings through his book on the Arya Vysya community, an official said.
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Dalit Writer Kancha Ilaiah Alleges Attack
Prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah today filed a police complaint stating that four persons attacked his vehicle in the town and tried to kill him.
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Unequal Land Ownership At Root Of Caste Violence, Says Dalit Writer Sujatha Gidla
Mumbai: Education alone will not lift millions of lower-caste Indians out of poverty and oppression as long as land in the country is in the hands of a powerful few, according to a Dalit writer whose memoir chronicles her family’s struggles against caste. Caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old biases persist, ...
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Dalit Writer Amrutlal Makwana Returns Award After Una Incident
As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana on Wednesday returned an award given by the Gujarat government.
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Writer Ashok Vajpeyi To Return Degree To Protest 'Anti-Dalit' Attitude
Noted writer Ashok Vajpeyi today decided to return D Litt degree given to him by Hyderabad University in protest against the "anti-Dalit" attitude of authorities which has allegedly driven a Dalit student to commit suicide.
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Dalit Writer Assaulted in Karnataka for 'Anti-Hindu' Writings
Even as nationwide protests by writers over "rising intolerance" continue, a young Dalit activist and writer was allegedly attacked by unidentified men for his "anti-Hindu" writings at Davangere in central Karnataka.
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Art Matters: The Weave of My Life
'The Weave of my Life - a Dalit woman's Memoirs' is an autobiography by an award winning Dalit writer and feminist, Urmila Pawar.
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Art Matters: The Weave of My Life
'The Weave of my Life- a Dalit woman's Memoirs' is an autobiography by an award winning Dalit writer and feminist, Urmila Pawar. The author links her mother's act of weaving baskets, aaydans, to her own 'act of writing'. Translated for the first time into English as The Weave of My Life, her memoirs describe the long journey from a Konkan village t...
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Delhi: A rickshaw puller's journey from prison to books
He was a rickshaw puller and she was a celebrity author. There was no way Manoranjan Byapari would have met Mahasweta Devi. But destiny willed otherwise.
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Supreme Court asks UP to explain arrest of writer for online post in support of Durga
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the arrest of well-known Dalit scholar Kamal Bharti for a Facebook post criticising IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension.
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Made In Heaven Makers Reject Dalit Writer's Credit Claim: "Pallavi Is Fictional" - Read Rebuttal
"We are deeply disturbed with the misleading reports and comments in context of author Yashica Dutt claiming formal credit," the makers wrote
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Reinstate Texts By Mahasweta Devi, Dalit Writers, Appeal Academicians
Over 1,100 academicians, writers and civil society members have written to Delhi University's acting vice-chancellor, urging him to reinstate the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bama and Sukirtharani in the English (Honours) syllabus.
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Cops Register Case Against Dalit Writer Kancha Ilaiah Over His Book
The Hyderabad Police has registered a case against prominent Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah for allegedly hurting religious feelings through his book on the Arya Vysya community, an official said.
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Dalit Writer Kancha Ilaiah Alleges Attack
Prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah today filed a police complaint stating that four persons attacked his vehicle in the town and tried to kill him.
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Unequal Land Ownership At Root Of Caste Violence, Says Dalit Writer Sujatha Gidla
Mumbai: Education alone will not lift millions of lower-caste Indians out of poverty and oppression as long as land in the country is in the hands of a powerful few, according to a Dalit writer whose memoir chronicles her family’s struggles against caste. Caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old biases persist, ...
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Dalit Writer Amrutlal Makwana Returns Award After Una Incident
As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana on Wednesday returned an award given by the Gujarat government.
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Writer Ashok Vajpeyi To Return Degree To Protest 'Anti-Dalit' Attitude
Noted writer Ashok Vajpeyi today decided to return D Litt degree given to him by Hyderabad University in protest against the "anti-Dalit" attitude of authorities which has allegedly driven a Dalit student to commit suicide.
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Dalit Writer Assaulted in Karnataka for 'Anti-Hindu' Writings
Even as nationwide protests by writers over "rising intolerance" continue, a young Dalit activist and writer was allegedly attacked by unidentified men for his "anti-Hindu" writings at Davangere in central Karnataka.
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Art Matters: The Weave of My Life
'The Weave of my Life - a Dalit woman's Memoirs' is an autobiography by an award winning Dalit writer and feminist, Urmila Pawar.
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Art Matters: The Weave of My Life
'The Weave of my Life- a Dalit woman's Memoirs' is an autobiography by an award winning Dalit writer and feminist, Urmila Pawar. The author links her mother's act of weaving baskets, aaydans, to her own 'act of writing'. Translated for the first time into English as The Weave of My Life, her memoirs describe the long journey from a Konkan village t...
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Delhi: A rickshaw puller's journey from prison to books
He was a rickshaw puller and she was a celebrity author. There was no way Manoranjan Byapari would have met Mahasweta Devi. But destiny willed otherwise.
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Supreme Court asks UP to explain arrest of writer for online post in support of Durga
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the arrest of well-known Dalit scholar Kamal Bharti for a Facebook post criticising IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension.
