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What Arivu’s ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ Tells Us About the Cultural Resistance to Caste
Four months after its release, ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ is a global hit, entertaining and educating audiences around the world even if, in the words of the lyricist, the intention wasn’t “to comfort anyone” but to “disturb”.
Tokyo Olympics: Casteist Slur At Hockey Player Vandana Katariya’s Family After Olympic Semis Loss, 1 Arrested: Report
According to news agency Press Trust of India, when some members of Vandana's family came out hearing the noise outside their house, the two men also passed casteist remarks against the family, saying the team had lost because it had too many Dalit players in it, he said.
The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plotting to kill India’s prime minister framed? | India | The Guardian
In 2018, Indian police claimed to have uncovered a shocking plan to bring down the government. But there is mounting evidence that the initial conspiracy was a fiction – and the accused are victims of an elaborate plot
The pandemic has worsened India’s poverty crisis | The Indian Express
Our estimates show that around 150-199 million additional people will fall into poverty this year. It means an overall increase in poverty by 15-20 per cent, making around half of the country’s population poor
Caste census debate, and the government stand over the year. Why is the government opposing it in 2021? – Inventiva
The present government is against a socio economic caste Census because it will harden the old existing caste identities.
Occupational Safety of Sanitation Workers Is Not Just a Technical Problem
Treating occupational safety for sanitation workers as a technical issue about personal protective equipment is not enough to understand the various elements involved, from changing behaviour to the larger context of sanitation workers’ lives.
Sewer deaths throw light on violations – The Hindu
Two labourers died after getting into the sewerage lines of GHMC takes the lid off the saga of negligence by contractors and government officials towards human lives.
Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation | Pew Research Center
Indians say it is important to respect all religions, but major religious groups see little in common and want to live separately
No Caste Discrimination In Islam, But Is It Really The Case?
Discussion of whether Islam is a religion that discriminates.
Indian Dalits urge Vatican tribunal to end discrimination
Dalit Christian organizations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have urged a Vatican tribunal to end casteism and discrimination against Dalits in the Catholic Church.
Catholic Bishop, AJV Obinna seeks end to ‘Osu’ caste system in Igboland – Daily Post Nigeria
The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Diocese, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony Obinna has called for an end to Osu caste system in Igbo land, describing it as a satanic culture that should have no place in today’s world where Christianity has taken over.
It is time for a new subfield: ‘Critical Caste Studies’ | South Asia@LSE
The global academy is in need of a new interdisciplinary field, Critical Caste Studies, in order to rethink caste-power in civil society, state, and academy in India and overseas, argues Gajendran Ayyathurai.
Gang rape exposes caste violence in India and the limits of Me Too
After details of a violent gang rape in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, were released to the public last year, protests broke out all over India. The story of four upper-caste men brutalizing a 19-year old Dalit woman, and her subsequent death from injuries sent shock waves throughout the country. It set off new conversations about violence against marginalized women in India, challenging both traditional spaces and the urban middle- to upper-class Me Too movement.
Three cops dismissed from service over custodial death of dalit woman in Telangana | Hyderabad News – Times of India
A sub-inspector and two constables of Addagudur police station, who were placed under suspension a month ago in relation to the custodial death of a 48-year-old dalit woman, have been dismissed from the service by Rachakonda commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat.
80% of sexual violence against Dalit women committed by dominant caste men: Report
A report ‘Justice Denied: Sexual Violence and Intersectional Discrimination - Barriers to Accessing Justice for Dalit Women and Girls in Haryana’ by Swabhiman Society, a grassroots organisation led by Dalit women, and international women's rights organisation Equality Now. The report examined 40 rape cases involving Dalit women and girls, which occurred over a span of 12 years, from 2009 - 2020.
How Dalit Women Are Fighting Back Against Rape, Assault
In India, women and girls from the Dalit community experience incredibly high rates of sexual violence. India’s caste system, which functions like a social hierarchy, imposes positionality at birth and has been in place for thousands of years. Dalits are at the bottom, outside the caste hierarchy, leading to discrimination at the intersections of caste, class, and gender.
India, Delhi: Protests after 9 year-old Dalit girl allegedly raped and murdered – CNN
Hundreds of people protested in the Indian capital Delhi on Wednesday for the fourth day straight, as outrage continues to build over the alleged rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl from one of India's most oppressed castes.
Minor Dalit Girl Raped in UP Village, Couple Booked
A case was registered against a couple following court’s order in connection with the alleged rape of a 16-year-old Dalit girl in a village.
India must consider untouchability as a form of racism: Civil society tells UN panel
A Joint Civil Society* Contribution to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for the adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting on India has regretted that despite the abolition of untouchability enshrined in the Indian Constitution, and a constitutional formal prohibition of discrimination on the ground base of race or caste, under the Constitution, Dalits and other communities affected by discrimination based on descent, including Adivasis, still face de facto discrimination.