Topic: Casteism in India
Actor Meera Mithun booked for anti-Dalit remarks
The Chennai police have booked actor-model Meera Mithun for using a casteist slur against Dalits.
Caste Hindu who made Dalit fall at feet booked in Tamil Nadu
The Tamil Nadu police on Sunday registered two cases against a caste Hindu who forced a village office assistant, belonging to Dalit community, to fall at his feet, at the Ottarpalayam village office in Coimbatore district on Friday.
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.
“We know them and they are upper castes”: Vandana Katariya’s family after facing caste-based attack
An upper-caste Hindu man Vijaypal (25) was arrested from the Roshnabad area of Uttarakhand's Haridwar district for shouting casteist slurs against the family of Vandana Katariya who was part of India's women's hockey team which lost to Argentina in a semifinal match at the Tokyo Olympics.
“His whole body was soaked in blood”: Dalit Family says 45-year-old killed in UP police’s custody
45-year-old Bahraichi, a Dalit resident of Shiv Bakhri locality in Uttar Pradesh's Sant Kabir Nagar district, died in police custody at the Bakhira police station on July 27 after he was brutally tortured by the cops.
After years of discrimination, 50 Dalits enter Madurai temple
50 Dalits from Thirumangalam village in Tamil Nadu's Madurai who entered Pekkaman Karuppasamy temple for the first time in their lives.
