Tag: Dalits

Condition of Dalits, Adivasis pitiable in Gujarat: Mayawati

With Gujarat gearing up for the Assembly elections later this year, BSP chief Mayawati on Friday alleged Dalits were living in pitiable condition in the state and that they should "unite and uproot" the BJP in the upcoming polls. "The condition of Dalits, Adivasis (tribals) and the poor among the 'sarva samaj' is very bad...

April 28, 2017

The man & his mission

Seminars, lectures, special programmes for Dalits, and other activities marked the quasquicentennial birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar last year. Parties and personalities across the political spectrum were involved in a competitive display of their high regard for the man, while true Ambedkerites wondered how far such projected adulation actually flowed from a genuine understanding...

April 13, 2017

Discrimination that haunts campuses

However democratic we may be, discrimination on the basis of caste has not diminished. Every day, in some part or the other of the country, there are atrocities on Dalits. Only the other Dadri, near Delhi, was the scene of a Dalit family being consigned to fire. In the national capital itself, a JNU student...

March 15, 2017

Life of Dalits unchanged since Ambedkar’s times: Chidambaram

Revisiting the death of Rohith Vemula and the assault against Dalits in Gujarat's Una, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that people of India should hang their heads in shame for not protecting the country's Dalits in the country. "All of us should hang our heads in shame that we have not been able...

March 15, 2017

Mayawati calls PM Modi ‘negative Dalit man’

Hitting back at the corruption accusation leveled against her by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said the PM had a negative mindset towards Dalits. “The prime minister has compelled me to define him as Mr. Negative Dalit man,” an agitated Mayawati said reacting to PM Modi’s comments earlier...

February 20, 2017

Jailhouse tyranny

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat has come to showcase a recurrence of man’s inhumanity to man, with the state government doing little or nothing to ensure the dignity and rights of the individual. The atrocities perpetrated on Dalits by cow vigilantes at Una some months ago has been reinforced, this time within the precincts of...

January 12, 2017

Jailhouse tyranny

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat has come to showcase a recurrence of man’s inhumanity to man, with the state government doing little or nothing to ensure the dignity and rights of the individual. The atrocities perpetrated on Dalits by cow vigilantes at Una some months ago has been reinforced, this time within the precincts of...

January 12, 2017