Please send the letter posted below to all the National Television Channels mentioned (by inserting your name in the place of the sender) and share and circulate it widely. [Via P. Dayanandan] ~~ To: Times of India, vivek.narayan@timesgroup.com; info@timesnow.tv; CNN-IBN, editor@ibnlive.com; Headlines Today, info@aajtak.com; NDTV, feedback@ndtv.com; CC to: Justice Markandey Katju; justicekatju@gmail.com Dear Sirs, We are writing to you …
I want to be in a place where policies are being made: VP Gomathi
Neel Kranti Media (First published in the ‘Dalit and Adivasi Students’ Portal’ in 2010) Born in a village in Tamilnadu, VP Gomathi holds a Masters in Social Work (2009) from one of the most reputed institutes of the country and is striving towards fulfulling her dream of playing an important role in the empowerment …
Chalo Delhi: Dalit-Adivasi Sammelan
Chalo Delhi: Dalit-Adivasi Sammelan [Via Asha Kowtal & Abhay Xaxa] On 23rd November, 2012, From 9 a.m., till 3 p.m. Nation-wide campaign to give a call to end Untouchability and Atrocities by enforcement and amendments to SC/ST PoA Act. Ramleela MaidanNew Delhi, India 110006
Dharmapuri 2012: Worse than Kilvenmani
Anand Teltumbde My friend Prof C Lakshmanan called me today from the ground zero in Dharmapuri narrating in his choked voice the horrific state of things in three villages – Natham, Anna Nagar and Kondampatti, where nearly 500 houses of Dalits were looted and burnt by the Vanniyar (an OBC caste) mob on 7 …
Duddu Prabhakar: Dalit movement at a crossroads
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes [In this interview Duddu Prabhakar, veteran Dalit rights activist and President of the ‘Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samithi’ (‘Struggle Committee for Eradication of Caste’, roughly), traces the history of the Dalit movement in Andhra Pradesh from Karamchedu in 1985 to Lakshimpeta in 2012, and says the movement now has to decide …
Dalit Women Elected Representatives: Towards Greater Assertion and Power
[Via Asha Kowtal] From Sunday, from 12:00 p.m., until Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. A series of programmes are being organized by All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) in association with National Mission on Empowerment of Women (NMEW), with the aim of promoting Dalit women’s leadership to effectively engage in political spheres in conjunction with her …
I want to motivate our students to join universities: Narinder Jakhu
Neel Kranti Media (First published in the ‘Dalit and Adivasi Students’ Portal’ in 2010) Narinder Jakhu, age 31, is pursuing his PhD at Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh and is also teaching there as a guest faculty. He is a JRF scholar working on the issue of Dalit Assertion, Mobility and Atrocities in …
Dalit Mahila Garima Yatra: Updates from the Karwan
Asha Kowtal Following the spate of media reports of gang rapes on dalit women in Haryana, several dalit organizations came together to express solidarity with the rape survivors and outrage against the institutionalized sexual violence on dalit women, by conducting a Karwan called Dalit Mahila Garima Yatra. In this photo-essay, through images we bring …
The ‘Myth’ in Mythology
Twish Mukherjee (This guest article tries to understand the protests by Bahujan students in JNU and other universities over Durga Puja and the demonizing of Mahisha and other Dalitbahujan personalities in Brahmanic mythology. These protests picked up steam around a year ago in JNU, and this article in Round Table India had covered the protests …