Dalits - Different Truths

August 18, 2016
Amit Singh
Subaltern & Dalits

Atrocities against Dalits: Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in India

A humanitarian crisis (read disaster) is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or...

August 15, 2016
Neelum S. Gour
Mass Comm.

Independence Day Reflections: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Neelum revisits the August 19, 2002, issue of the India Today. The special Fifty-Five Years of Freedom issue carries a lead article listing fifty-five things that made India...

August 1, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Politics

Punish Officials Helping Gaurakshak Dals

Protection of the Holy Cow is become a political weapon for Hindutwa chauvinists, the living cow against Muslims and the dead cow against Dalits. The RSS-BJP government’s drive to...

July 30, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Awards & Honours

Lenin Raghuvanshi gets the M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016

Lenin Raghuvanshi a renowned human right activist has been decorated with several international and national awards. He will be conferred the prestigious MA Thomas National Human Rights Award –...

July 28, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Tribute

Mahasweta Devi, the Voice of the Voiceless, Passes Away in Kolkata

A firebrand writer, who had the spunk and the courage to call a spade a spade, passed away in Kolkata, on Thursday, at 90. Madhumita pays a befitting tribute...

July 14, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Advocacy, Subaltern & Dalits

Caste and Torture

The National Human Rights Commission (2011) notes that from 2001 to 2010, there were 4,034 custodial deaths and 1,836 cases of custodial torture registered in India. The worst affected state...

June 11, 2016
Dr. Mohanlal Panda
Conflict & Resolution, Cover Story, Subaltern & Dalits

PVCHR Empowered Child Right to Curb Child Labour

Africa and Asia together account for over 90 per cent of total child employment. India has 10.12 million child labourers (Census 2011), aged between 5 to 14 years, and...

June 7, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Subaltern & Dalits

Protest against Repression on Dalits Fighting for Land Rights by Akailis, BJP in Punjab

There were agitation in Allahabad and Kaushambi against atrocities on Dalits by landlords and repression by the state police, in the Akali Daj-BJP led government in Punjab. A report. Hundreds...

May 11, 2016
Arindam Roy
Dissent, Profile, Subaltern & Dalits

Lenin, my Friend: Empowering the Marginal, Restoring Dignity

Arindam profiles the life and times of the human rights activist, Lenin Raghuvanshi, who has been working tirelessly to empower and emancipate the lowest of the low among Dalits, the Musahars...

May 5, 2016
Shirin Shabana Khan
Subaltern & Dalits

Varanasi Musahars Break the Shackles of Slavery, Emancipate Community

Elimination of the culture of silence, fear and phobia of organised violence and torture are the predominant factors of resilience to inculcate social transformation. It contributes in poverty elimination. The stories...

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