Dalits
- Dalits, India, Media, Narendra Modi, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, Protest, Sikhism, South and Central Asia, World news
If India can charge journalists with ‘sedition’ for doing their jobs, it has no free press | Hartosh Singh Bal
My colleagues reporting on alleged police violence at farmers’ protests have fallen foul of Modi’s governmentT…
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‘Untouchable’ Bollywood poster provokes outrage over caste stereotypes
Upper-caste actor playing Dalit politician Mayawati shown dishevelled and holding broom in publicity for new f…
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Caste-based area names to be changed across Indian state to ‘increase unity’
Millions of people in Maharashtra to have neighbourhoods renamed but critics say plan means little without beh…
- Catholicism, Dalits, Human rights, India, Indigenous peoples, Law, South and Central Asia, World news
India’s arrest of an 83-year-old priest on terrorism charges is an insult to justice | Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Father Stan Swamy, who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates, is far from a violent MaoistA fr…
- Class issues, Culture, Dalits, India, Inequality, Music, Pop and rock, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘We will bring change’: the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system
The Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict – and call out every…
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Nepal to investigate Dalit killings following arranged marriage dispute
Committee set up to investigate deaths of young men allegedly chased into river as a result of ‘caste-based di…
- Coronavirus outbreak, Dalits, Human rights, India, Infectious diseases, Islamophobia, Journalist safety, Kashmir, Law, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia, World news
Why is India targeting writers during the coronavirus pandemic? | Priyamvada Gopal and Salil Tripathi
Journalists, intellectuals and dissidents are being threatened by Modi’s governmentAs a lethal virus scorches …
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Coming out as Dalit: how one Indian author finally embraced her identity
Raised to hide her low caste, Yashica Dutt’s new book traces her realisation that her history is one of oppres…