Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes [This article consists of two parts: the first part is a statement issued by the Dalit Camera Team on the events surrounding the tragic death of a Kashmiri student, Mudasir Kamran (read more about his death here), in the English and Foreign Languages University campus, Hyderabad, and the protests …
Crimes against Northeast women: Is the state concerned enough?
Alana Golmei The brutal gang rape of India’s daughter on the night of 16th December, 2012, has awakened the whole nation from its deep slumber just like the fairy’s spell that was broken when the Prince finally arrived. As the tale goes, when the fairy cast a spell, everyone that lived in the castle …
Caste determines everything in campuses everywhere in the country: Dr Rakesh Sammauria
Neel Kranti Media (First published in the ‘Dalit and Adivasi Students’ Portal’ as ‘Dr Rakesh Sammauria: For a teacher his integrity is very important’ in 2010) Dr. Rakesh Sammauria, age 37 years, is an Associate Professor (Agronomy) at Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan. Currently he is working at All India Coordinated …
Name of God, wealth of Brahmins
Dr. K. Jamanadas Dr. Ambedkar asked to use temple money for public good In a special editorial in Mahanayak of 14th July 2012, titled, ‘Name of God, wealth of Brahmins’, the author has given interesting statistics. The following is the gist of it. Mr. Sharad Yadav has recently demanded that the money collected in the …
“Two glass system” in a Central University: The unseen ways of caste discrimination
Hany Babu The University of Delhi, which is the biggest central university of our country, ranked above all the other central universities, and situated in the urban space of the national capital, would, as per typical (read upper-caste, middle-class, urban) responses, not be the kind of place where there can be much relevance to caste, …
Bhagana’s Dalits and Caste Atrocities in Haryana
Public Meeting on Bhagana’s Dalits and Caste Atrocities in Haryana ~~~ AIBSF/UDSF Dalits from Bhagana village (Haryana) have reached Delhi covering a 200 km journey on foot in this sweltering summer heat, half naked, as a protest against the Khap Panchayat of Bhagana Jats. They have sat on a Dharna at Jantar Mantar, in the …
The Reservation Debate and the Hypocritical Misuse of Article 335
Devi Dayal “Article 335 of our constitution states that the claims of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be taken into consideration, consistently with the maintenance of efficiency of administration, in the making of appointments to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a …
Discrimination against Dalits in admissions to Delhi University
All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Organizations’ Press Note Dr. Udit Raj, National President of the AICOSCSTO , has unveiled the discrimination against Dalit students in admissions to the DU. The procedure for admissions to the first year commenced on 4th June. For SC/ST students, it turned out to be an ordeal as …
Attacks on Dalits in Koothirambakkam near Chennai
(Fact finding report first published in April 2003 by PUCL) Team members 1. Sheelu, President, Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective 2. T.S.S. Mani PUCL, Chennai – Chengai District Committee. 3. Ponnuthai, Women’s Forum Against Violence on Women, South Tamil Nadu. 4. W.G.Latha – Tamil Nadu Resource Team. 5. Jessy , Kanchi People’s Forum 6. Mahesh, Kanchi …