-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) ‘Analysis of Union Budget’ is a publication which Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) brings out every year following the presentation of the Union Budget in Parliament. This document presents our analysis of the priorities and trends in the Union Budget with regard to the sectors and issues that are directly relevant for the poorer sections of the population. Accordingly, this publication focuses...
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A case for Dalit journalism -J Balasubramaniam
-The Telegraph This rich history of Dalit engagement in the public sphere and the circulation of ideas that challenged dominant discourses are missing in mainstream histories This is the 150th year of Sooryodhayam, the first Dalit journal in Tamil. It is also, arguably, the first Dalit journal in India. As India celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it is not known that dalits in Tamil Nadu had started a journal...
More »'We Are One’: Why Punjab’s Landless dalits are Standing with Protesting Farmers -Sandeep Singh
-TheWire.in As much at risk as the farmers if the laws are not repealed, the dalits are also determined not to be used by the BJP to turn the protests against the new agriculture laws into an issue of landowners’ rights. New Delhi: On January 7, Thursday, when 2,000 labourers of the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union (PKMU) began their journey from Dabwali, Punjab, to the Tikri border between Haryana and Delhi to...
More »Why UP Govt Filed 25 Criminal Cases Against This Dalit Farmer -Flavia Lopes & John Simte
-Article-14.com The Uttar Pradesh government is entangling dalits, Adivasis, who demand land rights or protest displacement, in cobwebs of criminality by using its version of a colonial law meant to unconstitutionally exile and humiliate ‘goondas’. Mumbai/ New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has filed more than 25 criminal cases against a 65-year-old Dalit farmer called Shyamlal Paswan, ever since he sought formal rights to the land he farmed. Under the Forest Rights...
More »Quieter but still present: Landless labourers say have much to lose -Sourav Roy Barman
-The Indian Express A resident of Fazilka district, Dev Singh's life trajectory, in many ways, mirrors the plight of Punjab's landless labourers, managing to eke out a living wholly dependent on those owning tracts of land. New Delhi: His kurta a little crumpled, chappals worn out, eyes sunken and voice diffident, Dev Singh is not quite like the archetypal Punjabi farmer — feisty and boisterous. A Mazhabi Sikh, categorised as dalits, Dev Singh...
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