-Agence France-Presse Nekpur: With both hands holding the basket of human excrement on her head, widowed grandmother Kela walks through a stream of sewage, up a mound of waste and then dumps the filth while cursing. "Nobody even pays us a decent wage!" she spits as she rakes mud and rubbish over her newly deposited pile, one of several she drops in the course of her working day cleaning toilets as a...
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In Dharmapuri, Dalit students discriminated against in schools -R Arivanantham
-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...
More »Textbook: non-vegetarians lie, commit sex crimes
-PTI Yet another textbook in a CBSE school has sparked a controversy by allegedly insinuating that non-vegetarians lie, cheat and commit crimes, with the government terming it as "unfortunate" and asking state bodies to remain alert about such content and monitor them. "Sensitivities of communities have to be kept in mind. I think its unfortunate, an occasional aberration happens. But what I would request is that the state body should always be...
More »Can't Invoke SC/ST Act If Victim Not Abused in Public: Court
-Outlook One cannot be prosecuted for hurling castiest abuses at a person from scheduled caste or tribe unless it is proved that the incident took place in "full public view," a Delhi court has said. Additional Sessions Judge Rajnish Bhatnagar made the observation, referring to a provision of the Scheduled castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and discharging three members of a family of charges under the Act. "From the bare reading...
More »NCSC chief to visit Dalit colonies in Naikkankottai today
-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,...
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