Selected media clippings on caste in 2016
- Unspent money for Dalits, Adivasis (Millennium Post, 2016)
- In India, a Revolution of the Untouchables (Pacific Standard, 2016)
- Pregnant Dalit woman beaten up for not disposing of cow carcass (The Hindu, 2016)
- India’s plan to tackle disasters neglects women, disabled and lower castes: aid workers (Reuters, 2016)
- Dalits plan extensive drive to attain due status, rights (Dawn, 2016)
- Case study: Dalits with disabilities in India (Minority Stories, 2016)
- Collective efforts stressed to root out discriminations against downtrodden people (New Age)
- Shackles of caste: No end to discrimination against ‘achoot’ (The Express Tribune)
- The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job (The Guardian)
- Why hasn’t caste discrimination against Dalits been outlawed in Britain? (Inews, 2016)
- British Indians divided over anti-caste law (The Hindu, 2016)
- Caste oppression exists among Sri Lankan Tamils but is kept under wraps (The New Indian Express, 2016)
- India: More than half of undertrials are Dalits, Muslims and tribals (Al Jazeera English, 2016)
- In India, Food Business Challenges Caste-based Discrimination (VOA News, 2016)
- In Mevani’s Arrest Lies Gujarat Govt’s Fears of a Land Uprising (The Quint, 2016)
- My head hangs in shame over atrocities on Dalits: Modi (Times of India, 2016)
- Gujarat govt “war” on Dalit activists? Minister seeks inquiry against Dalit NGO, cops file FIR to placate Mevani (Counterview 2016)
- Answer to Maratha protests: Dalits hold a rally in Latur (Hindustan Times 2016)
- With Marathas targeting the caste crime law, Maharashtra Dalits fear the return of the ‘old days’ (Scroll, 2016)
- Why Crime is Rising Against Dalits and Tribals (The Quint, 2016)
- Discrimination: Soldier funeral reveals India outsize outcaste problem (IANS, 2016)
- ‘I don’t want to bow down to higher castes anymore’ (Frontline, 2016)
- Cases of caste-based discrimination rarely reach court (Kathmandu Post, 2016)
- Untouchable: Modern Nepal’s Shame & An Untouchable Woman’s Adventurous Journey
- The new Dalit movement: Assertive, inclusive and beyond party politics | india-news | Hindustan Times
- Suicide stats show wide gap between SCs and others in Gujarat, Tripura (The Indian Express)
- How Well Has Narendra Modi’s Government Protected India’s Scheduled Castes? (The Diplomat)
- Caste is anti-national as it divides India, says Amartya Sen (Hindustan Times)
- Why are many Indian Muslims seen as untouchable? (BBC News)
- India’s plan to tackle disasters neglects women, disabled, Dalits (Thomson-Reuters)
- SOS: Get us out of the gutter (Tribune India)
- Reality Of Clean India? Manual Scavenging Still An Ugly Truth For 1000s (Youth-Kiawaaz)
- Twenty-Three Years Since Anti-Manual Scavenging Act Not Much Has Changed on Ground | The Wire
- Bhim Yatra: a bus full of hope for the manual scavenger (Catch News)
- Stories we don’t hear (Livemint)
- India’s forgotten people (Frontline)
- Shackles of caste: No end to discrimination against ‘achoot’ – The Express Tribune
- The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
- How to be free of caste in India (The Hindu)
- COUNTERVIEW: Noam Chomsky joins top US, British, other world scholars to condemn “state violence” in Hyderabad
- Urgent Notes from a University in Crisis | The Wire
- Hindu nationalism and caste exclusion in Indian universities | openDemocracy
- Two colours: How ‘common enemy’ in university campuses united Jai Bheem, Lal Salaam | The Indian Express
- Rohith Vemula – an unfinished portrait | Hindustan Times
- Rohith’s suicide issue raised during UN rights meet
- A Dalit’s Suicide Sparks Protests in India | The Diplomat
- The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
- Activists hope Mauritania court rulings signal “…
- COUNTERVIEW: Govt of India “blocks” Dalit solidarity network’s move to seek recognition at UN (2016)
- Caste Won’t Be Erased from California Textbooks (The Wire, 2016)
- India drought hurts women, Dalits (Thomson-Reuters Foundation, 2016)
- Kerala Dalit student rape case: A pattern of chronic systemic apathy (dnaindia, 2016)
- Brutal rape, murder of a woman in Kerala sparks protests (Reuters, 2016)
- Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
- India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
- India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination (Reuters, 2016)
- Discrimination on the campus – Prof. Sukhadeo Thora (The Hindu)
- Why are India’s Dalit students taking their lives? (BBC News)
- A Tragic Suicide at a University Puts the Spotlight on Discrimination Against Dalits in India (Global Voices)
- Dalit Family Denied Road Access To Bury Family Members in Tamil Nadu (Huffington Post)
- In Tamil Nadu’s Vazhavur, another story of Dalit death and prejudice (The Indian Express)
- 354 dalit, adivasi groups suggest overhaul of schemes to finance ministry (Times of India)
