Una Violence

Inside a bamboo shelter on Bangladesh's eastern coast, 58-year-old Sait Banu held a dog-eared note from her husband. "If you find a good match for my daughter Una Jamin, you can arrange her wedding," he urged her in the letter.

In his reply to the day-long debate in parliament on the issue of atrocities on Dalits, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said there is no data to suggest that crimes against Dalits go up when the BJP is in power. The matter, he added, should not be politicised and the society must take it as a challenge to bring an end to such incidents.

The "Charamkar" community -- the second largest Dalit sub-caste in Gujarat, who skin dead cattle for a living - has boycott the work they have been made to do for centuries.

Leaders of CPI, CPI(M) and JD(U) would visit Una tomorrow to meet members of the Dalit community who have been protesting the brutal assault on four youths for allegedly skinning a cow in the town in Gir-Somnath district 11 days ago.

Arvind Kejriwal on Friday was the latest visitor to a village in Gujarat that has drawn massive political attention over the flogging and shaming of four Dalit men for skinning a dead cow on July 11.

From a village in Gujarat to Parliament, politics took centrestage over the flogging and shaming of four young men for skinning a dead cow, a video of which has provoked national outrage and violent Dalit protests across the state in the past week.

Inside a bamboo shelter on Bangladesh's eastern coast, 58-year-old Sait Banu held a dog-eared note from her husband. "If you find a good match for my daughter Una Jamin, you can arrange her wedding," he urged her in the letter.

In his reply to the day-long debate in parliament on the issue of atrocities on Dalits, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said there is no data to suggest that crimes against Dalits go up when the BJP is in power. The matter, he added, should not be politicised and the society must take it as a challenge to bring an end to such incidents.

The "Charamkar" community -- the second largest Dalit sub-caste in Gujarat, who skin dead cattle for a living - has boycott the work they have been made to do for centuries.

Leaders of CPI, CPI(M) and JD(U) would visit Una tomorrow to meet members of the Dalit community who have been protesting the brutal assault on four youths for allegedly skinning a cow in the town in Gir-Somnath district 11 days ago.

Arvind Kejriwal on Friday was the latest visitor to a village in Gujarat that has drawn massive political attention over the flogging and shaming of four Dalit men for skinning a dead cow on July 11.

From a village in Gujarat to Parliament, politics took centrestage over the flogging and shaming of four young men for skinning a dead cow, a video of which has provoked national outrage and violent Dalit protests across the state in the past week.