Topic: Casteism

A 39-year-old Dalit domestic worker from Kerala, Bindu R, has accused the police at Peroorkada station of wrongful detention, custodial harassment, and denying her basic rights, after she was falsely implicated in a gold theft case.

Dalit teenagers were allegedly subjected to brutal assault and torture in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district by the owner of the ice cream factory where they worked, along with his associates.

In a disturbing instance from Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district, a private school in Senguttaipalayam allegedly compelled a Class VIII student, belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC), to sit for her annual examination outside the classroom solely because she was menstruating.

A political storm erupted in Rajasthan after senior BJP leader and former MLA Gyandev Ahuja performed a “purification” ritual at a temple in Alwar, shortly after the visit of Leader of Opposition Tikaram Jully, who belongs to the Dalit community.

Bringing back the harrowing memory of the cold-blooded murder of Gokulraj, a Dalit engineering student, on June 24, 2015, in Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, the convicted A1, S. Yuvaraj, was paroled on March 11, 2025, to attend his daughter’s puberty ceremony with his family.

"It is my job. My ancestors did this before me. We don’t have the luxury of thinking," says Pawan Choudhary, a cremation worker from the Dom community, as he reflects on his work, in the documentary Wounds of Pyre—Inside the Minds of Cremation Workers. But how did this work become the community’s identity? Directed by Babita Gautam and Sahil Valmiki, the documentary film seeks to answer this unsettling question.