Topic: Caste
How does Black Lives Matter translate into India?
Physical violence on Dalits are both direct and indirect, someone dies in a gutter as enforced caste occupation while the others get killed for small transgressions of caste rules, ranging from “honor killing” to caste massacres.
‘Discrimination a part of Hindu Dharma,’ Tamil Dalit families who embraced Islam say
Post the tragic incident in Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, where a caste-wall collapsed on December 2 last year and led to the death of 17 Dalits, 430 Dalits have embraced Islam on January 24 and around 1000 people announced that they were to convert to Islam in recent weeks.
Redefining space and resisting caste in university spaces – In conversation with N Sukumar
Delhi University professor N Sukumar spoke to Raniya Zulaikha, student at Ramjas College, Delhi University about the caste, Ambedkarite politics, education policies and university spaces.
Harvard Professor Ajantha Subramanian talks on IITs and social life of caste
Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise— Harvard University professor and anthropologist Ajantha Subramanian, reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions
Odisha: Inter-caste love draws mob’s ire, couple tonsured, paraded as punishment
The police rescued the two and booked 21 people from the village based on the FIR lodged by the girl.
Muslim students join ‘Dalits only’ Kerala school, break caste barriers and effect difference
As part of the mission the Operation for Rohith Vemula, 6 Muslim students along with their parents reached the school and took admission in the school. Rohit Vemula is the Ph.D. student whose institutional murder in the University of Hyderabad led to nationwide protests and resistance against the caste system.
