Topic: Casteism in India
Caste based reservation is under danger: Tejashwi Yadav
The 10% quota to the economically backward among the upper castes is the first step to end caste-based reservations, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Tuesday.
The goal is to destroy caste and caste based society: Radhika Vemula
Radhika Vemula's speech on Rohith Vemula Shahadath Din, 17th January 2019
Dalit man forced to pay fine and manhandled as sacred flower falls in his lap in a ceremony
A Scheduled Caste (SC) person had to pay a heavy price after a ‘sacred flower’ fell into his lap during an ‘elite’ religious ceremony held at a fair in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district.
Farmers do not get loan waivers, but corporates do. I look at this as a big scam, says Jignesh Mevani
People fail to acknowledge the presence of casteism in our society and annihilation of caste and eradication of corruption remain two big challenges facing the country, youth leader and Vadgam (Gujarat) MLA Jignesh Mevani said on Sunday at a session on ‘Casteism and Corruption’.
Caste is the sole reason for my son’s death, says Radhika Vemula
Radhika Vemula and several activists paid tribute to Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula whose institutional murder in 2016 became a milestone in the history of Dalit and Bahujan resistance in India.
‘I need your support’, Writes Anand Teltumbde
I, an IIM-A alumnus, IIT Professor, executive director of BPCL, Ex-MD & CEO of Petronet India, senior professor and chair, Big Data Analytics in Goa Institute of Management, author of 26 books, columnist in the Economic and Political Weekly, writer of innumerable articles, a noted scholar of caste-class and public policy issues, leading public intellectual and democratic and educational rights activist face imminent threat of arrest as an ‘Urban Maoist’ in the vilest post-independence plot by the state.
