-FreePressJournal.in Jaipur: Attacks on dalit weddings and cases of dalit grooms being taken off mare are still eminent in Rajasthan. Rajasthan police data tells that 76 FIRs were lodged of such incidents in the state in the last 8 years and 80 per cent of them were found to be true. Looking at the situation the police had to issue a special order recently to give full police protection to such...

-TheWire.in "Constitutional and legal mandates are not sufficient to protect the rights of the marginalised group including dalit and tribals," he said at a lecture. New Delhi: Tribals are subject to oppression and cruelty even after independence and still picked up by the investigating officers to cover up shoddy investigations, Supreme Court Judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said on Monday. Justice Chandrachud was speaking at the 13th B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on the...

-Behanbox.com Mumbai: Around 400 metres off the Gujarat state highway near Vautha village, along the snake-like curves of the Sabarmati river, lie nearly a hundred acres of land that government records describe as “non-useful riverside land”. But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind...

-MaktoobMedia.com Kin of the four members of a dalit family who were killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Thursday have alleged that an upper-caste Hindu family is responsible for the heinous crime. Phoolchand Pasi, a 50-year-old dalit labourer, his wife 40-year-old Meenu, 10-year-old son Shiv and 16-year-old daughter Sapna were murdered in Gohri village of Soraon Vidhan Sabha of Prayagraj. The minor girl was allegedly gang-raped before her death. While talking to NDTV,...

-National Herald The Prime Minister lamented his failure to persuade a ‘section of the farmers’ that the three farm laws were good for them. But how did he seek to persuade the farmers? What the media can never openly admit is that the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory. A victory that...