Topic: Caste
Actor Meera Mithun booked for anti-Dalit remarks
The Chennai police have booked actor-model Meera Mithun for using a casteist slur against Dalits.
Casteist remarks shouldn’t happen: Vandana Katariya
"We are playing for the country… and whatever is happening… like casteist comments… whatever little I have heard, shouldn’t happen," Katariya told Indian Express.
It happened in front of several villagers, but nobody intervened: Brother of Dalit boy lynched by Upper Caste men in UP
"The brutal attack happened in front of several villagers, but nobody intervened," says brother of a 22-year-old Dalit boy Ravindra who was killed by three upper caste Hindu men in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Wednesday.
The Great Indian Kitchen: Why we need to reflect on role of upper caste Hindu patriarchs
The Great Indian Kitchen is a recent Malayalam flick directed by Jeo Baby with Nimisha Sajayan and Suraj Venjaramoodu in the lead roles showcasing stellar performances as the husband wife duo in a quintessential savarna Malayali household that accurately portrays the division of labour among other things in Indian society.
Bihar polls: Nitish Kumar backs population-based reservation for castes
Addressing an election rally in Bihar, JD(U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday backed population-based reservation for castes.
Thinking beyond identity politics; seeking anti-caste emancipatory politics in Islam
. The politics of identity is about the politics of belonging, and limiting someone and their voices to their caste identity, caste people and closed caste circles delegitimizes the potential of belonging to an emancipatory faith or pursuit of a new identity where they can belong with all kind of acceptance.
