-The Hindu Caste Hindu students keep away, even sit separately in class DHARMAPURI: Even as they are yet to get over the November 7 attack on their houses, the children of Natham, Kondampatti and Anna Nagar dalit colonies in Naikkankottai village have run into another problem in one of the schools: caste Hindu students are keeping away from them for the last two days at the Government High School. The students are being...

-The Hindu Pokhari village in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district continues to reel under a spate of farmer suicides. From 1998 till now, nothing seems to have changed A phone call informing him about the twin suicides of his father and older brother changed 23-year-old Sunil Wagh’s life forever. On September 28, his father Shivaji, 55, and brother Baliram, 28, hung themselves, Shivaji at his farm and Baliram at his home in Pokhari village...

-The Telegraph The Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council has suggested revamping the way tribal and dalit welfare programmes are now implemented, saying these have failed to make much difference to their lives. Council member N.C. Saxena told The Telegraph that the funds allotted for dalit and tribal welfare schemes are now mostly spent on wider projects, diluting the benefits, which accrue to all rather than specifically to dalits and tribals. The council examined...

-The Hindu ADGP promises impartial probe into caste violence P. L. Punia, Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), on Monday will visit three dalit colonies in Naikkankottai village of Dharmapuri district, which witnessed caste violence last week. He will be accompanied by Lata Priyakumar, member, NCSC, sources in the district administration said here on Sunday. On Saturday, D. Venkatesan, director, NCSC, State Office in Chennai, visited the colonies, while on Sunday, T.K. Rajendran,...

-The Hindu Most of the youth were working outside district when the attack took place With normality limping back to dalit villages in Dharmapuri district, which witnessed a caste flare-up on Wednesday evening, the victims have alleged that an act of ‘systematic destruction’ of their properties and livelihood resources has taken place. The dalit settlements of Natham, Kondampatti and Annanagar in Naikkankottai villages bore the brunt of mob fury following the suicide of...