-GaonConnection.com A survey-based study by the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)'s Dalit Adhikari Andolan found that 56% of the surveyed students from the marginalised communities in the annual income group of Rs 20,000-40,000 were unable to access online classes. Further, 73% respondents from particularly vulnerable tribal groups were unable to access online classes in the COVID pandemic. One out of every second Dalit and tribal student interviewed as part of...
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Farmer’s Agitation: A Unique Movement In India’s History in India -Prabhat Patnaik
-Countercurrents.org Real life has a way of surprising theory. One of the most intensely discussed theoretical questions on the Left has been how to bring agricultural labourers and peasants, including well-to-do peasants, together in a common struggle against landlord domination in India’s countryside. Numerous Marxist gatherings have for years discussed the contradiction between peasants and labourers holding up a decisive resolution of the contradiction between the landlords and the rest of...
More »Who are the Sikhs of Lakhimpur Kheri? Tracing their history, origin, livelihood -Tenzin Zompa
-ThePrint.in Sikh families in the Terai region in Uttar Pradesh, of which Lakhimpur Kheri is a part, migrated to the region post Partition. Most of them practice farming. New Delhi: Four farmers were among the eight killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri Sunday after a convoy of three SUVs hit protesting farmers in the district. The four victims — Nachattar Singh (60), Lovepreet Singh (20), Daljeet Singh (35) and Gurvinder Singh (19) —...
More »Hathras was no exception, at least 4 ‘rape’ victims were ‘forcibly cremated’ by police -Bismee Taskin and Tanushree Pandey
-ThePrint.in In each of the 4 cases, which took place between September 2020 and January 2021, families allege they were under pressure from police to quickly cremate the bodies. New Delhi: This Thursday marked one year since the victim of an alleged gang rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras was forcibly cremated by the authorities in the dead of night, amid protests by her family. The forcible cremation of the 20-year-old Dalit...
More »School principal makes Dalit students sit in separate queues during mid-day meal in UP, suspended -Namita Bajpai
-The New Indian Express A detailed probe is underway after the FIR was registered against Soni under relevant sections of the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. LUCKNOW: The principal of a primary school in Vanpurwa Gaderi gram panchayat of Amethi district of UP made students belonging to the Scheduled Castes sit in different queues during the mid-day meals on the school premises. An FIR has been registered and the school principal has been suspended. A...
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