35-year-old law student and Ambedkarite activist, Somnath Vyankat Suryawanshi, who was arrested by Maharashtra police in connection with the Parbhani protest, died due to “shock following multiple injuries,” says the forensic department in Aurangabad.
Ambedkar Association of North America has strongly condemned Google's “reprehensible action” last week, of canceling a pre-approved, scheduled talk on caste based discrimination by Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs to Google's employees to mark the Dalit History Month.
Neither the Dalit political leaders nor Dalit educated class dared to ask, 'What about the land distribution to the landless?' One might argue that such a demand could have derailed the movement.
Ambedkar was alone in his thought and politics. Rohit was alone in his life and death. None other than his soul could know that he was walking towards death.
A Joint Action Council of Ambedkarite Students’ Organizations against Caste Violence on Dalits appealed to the various anti-caste organizations and like-minded individuals, to join them for a nationwide protest on 10 October, to register their dissent against the caste-based sexual violence on Dalit women.
During this distressing time, more than 20 Ambedkarite organizations who work outside India are seething with rage, pain and sadness at the brutal caste hate crime against a 19 year old Dalit woman in Hathras who was raped and murdered by upper-caste Hindu men.