Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Dalit women

‘Khabar Lahariya’, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women

Taken over a period of five years, Sundance award-winning documentary 2021, 'Writing with Fire’, portrays the powerful women of Khabar Lahariya, the first newspaper completely run by Dalit women.

9-year-old Dalit girl raped, murdered, forcibly cremated by a priest: Family in Delhi

In a shocking incident, a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and murdered and her body forcibly cremated by a priest named Pandit Radhey Shyam and his companions in the capital city, New Delhi.

Writing With Fire: Story of grassroots journalism in India at its finest

The award winning documentary 'Writing with fire' filmed over five years by the wife and husband team Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghoshintu will have its UK premier on friday

UP: Dalit schoolgirl gang-raped by six men, 3 arrested

The class XII student who went for a ride on her scooty with two school friends, was dragged from her two-wheeler, assaulted and gang-raped by six men in Bhagwanpur Dhimri village on May 31.

I am asking vote for justice: Dalit mother who contests against Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

A voter in Dharmadam constituency in Kannur district who is an auto driver I met, shared some of his observations from the ground regarding the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections. According to him, people listens to Bhagyavathi, responds to her and are identifying her candidature as a real battle. Bhagyavathi, a mother of the two Dalit girls found raped and dead in Walayar in Palakkad district under suspicious circumstances in 2017, is contesting polls against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Dalit women face violence due to assertion to access basic resources: Report

All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) has come up with a status report titled ‘Dalit Women Rise for Justice- Status Report 2021’ which deals with various aspects of the struggle of Dalit women in India in accessing justice and claiming human rights to enjoy the equal socio-economic and political status.