Fifty years of independence. The salute of fifty bullets. Ten Dalits murdered. This is our independence. ~ Poster in Ramabai colony135 (Excerpt from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s ‘Untouchables’) Excessive use of force by members of the police is not limited to the rural areas that are …
Statues of Dr. Ambedkar and Immanuel Sekaran desecrated
Joshua Isaac Statues of Revolutionary Ambedkar & Martyr Immanuvel Sekaran at Madurai airport & Chinnaodaippu village, Madurai, have been desecrated by unidentified persons last night. State wide protests by Liberation Panthers. Hundreds arrested protesting before Ambedkar statue at Thallakulam. Tension prevails.
The cartoon controversy: Inside the mind of one ‘fanatic’ Dalit – I
Anoop Kumar ‘I have an open mind, though not an empty mind. A person with an open mind is always the subject of congratulations. While this may be so, it must, at the same time, be realized that an open mind may also be an empty mind and that such an open mind, if it …