Year: 2021

Caste, Judiciary and Collection of Evidence in Sexual Crimes

When a Dalit woman of the Sansi nomadic community in Rajasthan’s Churu was raped by dominant caste men in 2018,…

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‘If something bothers you, make a film about it’

Trailer of the film ‘Vrutti’ The Marathi feature film Vrutti (Human Nature) made its debut at the International Film Festival…

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Upper caste domination in higher education

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru The data obtained by the non-profit organisation Egalitarians under the Right to Information Act (RTI)…

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Mavelinadu, a publishing space for Bahujans, launches website, fellowships

A group of Bahujans has come together to form a collective called Mavelinadu that aims to retell as well as…

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‘Every person who professes to be a Hindu must be eligible for being a priest’: A nitpicking

Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur (Photo courtesy: Ojas Suryawanshi) Section 24 of Annihilation of Caste (AoC) has come into discussion with the recent…

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Phoolan Devi: The radical fighter against caste and patriarchy

Phoolan Devi “How can people like you—backward caste people—think you’re better than us? One day I’m going to teach you…

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Nikita Sonavane on Vimuktas, policing and casteism

Nikita Sonavane During the colonial period, the British introduced the Criminal Tribes Act in India in 1871, which criminalised several…

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Abuse faced by Vandana Katariya exposes casteism in sports

The family of Vandana Katariya, Forward player in the women’s hockey team, faced casteist abuse soon after the women’s team…

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Bombay Catholics and the question of caste

I dedicate this article to Sharad Patil, who remains a guide for reinterpreting non-Vedic knowledge in India.  At the onset…

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IIT Madras professor resigns alleging caste discrimination

Vipin P. Veetil Vipin Pudiyath Veetil, an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of…

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