Dalits

December 04, 2023

How hunger shaped the greatest iconoclast academician of our times

The noted economist and Dalit activist was found dead at his residence in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 74.

November 13, 2023
Kasaragod court rejects pre-arrest bail plea of headteacher who forcibly cut hair of Dalit student

Chittarikkal police had charged her with unlawful restraint under Section 341 of IPC, cruelty towards child under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, and forcibly tonsuring head, which was derogatory to human dignity.
November 03, 2023
Dalit woman raped, body chopped into pieces in UP; accused absconding

The woman went to Rajkumar Shukla's house to clean his flour mill. When her 20-year-old daughter reached there, she heard her mother's screams from a room which was bolted from inside, said the SHO.
October 31, 2023
Janakikkad Dalit girl gang rape: Three out of four accused sentenced to life

The fourth accused received a jail term of 30 years. It was in 2021 that the Dalit minor was gang-raped by four youths from the Janakikkad ecotourism forest area.
September 15, 2023
Stripped of livelihood, Dalit auto driver Chithralekha to begin indefinite stir seeking justice

The culprits, who set her auto on fire in front of her house, are still at large.
August 25, 2023
Ayyankali's struggle for Dalits comes to life for the first time in Mohiniyattam

Performance based on social reformist Ayyankali bringing Dalit girl Panchami to the Ooruttambalam school at Maranalloor village and making her sit alongside so-called upper caste students.
July 14, 2023
18-yr-old Dalit woman's body dumped in Rajasthan after rape, acid attack

Opposition BJP leaders, including MP Kirodi Lal Meena, and the woman's family members staged a sit-in outside the hospital where the body has been kept for postmortem.

Dalits

How hunger shaped the greatest iconoclast academician of our times

Meet the first generation of female Tholpaavakoothu artistes of Kerala | Onmanorama News Documentary

Kasaragod court rejects pre-arrest bail plea of headteacher who forcibly cut hair of Dalit student

Dalit woman raped, body chopped into pieces in UP; accused absconding

Janakikkad Dalit girl gang rape: Three out of four accused sentenced to life

Stripped of livelihood, Dalit auto driver Chithralekha to begin indefinite stir seeking justice

Ayyankali's struggle for Dalits comes to life for the first time in Mohiniyattam

18-yr-old Dalit woman's body dumped in Rajasthan after rape, acid attack

MP man accused of urinating on tribal youth arrested; Congress demands CBI probe

3 acquitted in Hathras rape-murder case

Union minister orders probe into death of IIT Bombay student and caste bias charge