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Dear Indian Diaspora, We Need to Talk About Caste (Varsity)

Satyajit Amin argues that the Indian diaspora needs to confront widespread casteism in their communities and renew efforts to pass anti-discrimination legislation.

The Specter of Caste in Silicon Valley (The New York Times)

“In the backdrop of caste supremacy in the Indian diaspora in the United States, when higher-caste Hindus often describe and demonize Dalits as “inherently lazy/ opportunistic/ not talented,” even apparently innocuous practices like peer reviews for promotions (Cisco and several other tech companies operate on this model), can turn into minefields, ending in job losses and visa rejections for Dalits.”

Caste bias in Silicon Valley: India’s unwanted export (BBC Podcast)

BBC podcast looks at how caste bias has become an uncomfortable reality for many Indians migrating to the US

NSS urges UN to push government to pass law on caste discrimination (National Secular Society)

Even with a Harvard pedigree, caste follows ‘like a shadow’ (PRI – Caste in America series)

BBC Asian Network debate on caste legislation in the UK « DSN-UK

BBC Asian Network’s host of the Big Debate, Nomia Iqbal, led a live debate on the caste legislation in the UK. Satpal Muman, Chair of CasteWatch UK and Satish Sharma, from the National Council of Hindu Temples, were in the studio and DSN-UK Director, Meena Varma called in.

Hinduism, Britain and caste: Arguments over caste spread from India to Britain (The Economist)

Caste discrimination fears as Modi visits UK (Channel 4)

Re-legalising Caste-based Discrimination (Lancaster Review – by Meena Varma)

Australians subject to ‘caste discrimination’, migrants say | SBS News

‘Global initiative of Dalits in India, African-Americans in U.S. needed’ (The Hindu)

Fighting the Dalit women’s fight with art and activism (The Guardian)

The Dalit-American transmedia artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan turns a critical lens on the intersection of caste discrimination and sexual violence in India. By Amanda Holpuch.

Resolution against anti-Dalit atrocities introduced in U.S. House (The Hindu)

a key resolution was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives “Condemning Dalit untouchability, the practice of birth-descent discrimination against Dalit people, which is widely practiced in India, Nepal, the Asian diaspora, and other South Asian nations, and calling on these countries to recognise the human rights of the Dalit people and end all forms of untouchability within their borders.”

#Dalitwomenfight! @ Incite Color of Violence 4 (Asha Kotal reporting via Storify)

A historical meeting of Dalit women leaders with North American Radical Women of Color and Trans Peoples Movements at Incite's Color of Violence 4 Conference held in Chicago, IL from March 26-29, 2015

Battle against caste system goes global – The Times of India

Still I rise (Elle India Magazine, article on US Dalit woman, 2014)

Discrimination and rejection are rites of passage for any Dalit, anywhere in the world. One Dalit-American artist contemplates all she has learnt from being branded untouchable. "It requires great will to take on the gravity of who you are in the face of a society that believes you are not equal. Every Dalit I know has had a turning point where they have rejected the stereotype and forged their own way. Whether it was my grandfather who walked 10 km each way to the only grade school that would enrol him, or the Dalit women who fight every day for justice in the Dalit Women’s Self-Respect yatra – this raw strength is what defines us as a community and is what I lean on in the hard times of my work."

The spread of caste discrimination? (BBC News – Louise Stewart blog)

"Desraj Bunger a leader in the Guru Ravidass Sabha UK Community says the government must take action.He said: "The caste problems we're having in this country have followed us from India... our government needs to support us because we're desperately in need of their help."

Bigotry beyond borders (Opinion – Ekatipur.com)

Caste-based discrimination continues to follow Dalits even to first world countries

Equality and Human Rights Commission publishes Caste in Britain reports

Two reports published in the UK confirm that caste discrimination “cannot be tolerated and should be included in the protections against discrimination and harassment provided in the Equality Act 2010” and comment that the proposed sunset clause, “for a non-discrimination ground is legally without precedent and goes against this key differential”