For An Informed Ambedkar Age
A Sneak peek into a Dalit Family’s Legal Struggle A.B. Karl Marx Siddharthar On 29th, June, 2021 I, being the victim/petitioner in an atrocity case, visited the Collector’s Office, Chennai to attend the DVMC (District Vigilance Monitoring Committee) meeting. Based on the Hon’ble Madras High Court’s Order, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Chennai CBCID …
Harshali Nagrale India recorded an average of 87 rape cases every day in 2019 and 4,05,861 cases of crimes against women during the year – a rise of over seven per cent from 2018. Out of the total 32,033 reported rape cases in the year, 11 per cent were from the Dalit community (NCRB,2019). …
Himanshu Patil Chotelal Diwakar and his son Sunil went out for a walk around noon. Little did they know that the walk would be their last. The Samajwadi Party leader and his son were shot later that day over a dispute related to the construction of a road which allegedly crossed through the fields owned …
Dr. B. Karthik Navayan Samata Sainik Dal (SSD), the organization founded by Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in 1924 with the objective of safeguarding the rights of all oppressed sections of Indian society is conducting a legal research on the closure of cases registered under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act …
Vikas Bagde The media not only has a mass reach in the country, but is also able to influence this large population according to its wishes. Most of the time (or rather, all the time), the ruling class use the power of the media to safeguard their interests. You can see this from the …
Talastarada Vedike Kiran Bedi, Ex IAS officer, an active member of a political party and Puducherry Lt Governor, has insulted and condemned de-notified tribes by tweeting on 2 nd August:”Ex-criminal tribes are known to be very cruel. They are hardcore professionals in committing crimes. Rarely caught and/or convicted.” These words of Kiran Bedi have seriously …
ತಳಸ್ತರ ವೇದಿಕೆ, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಬುಡಕಟ್ಟು ಮಹಾಸಭಾ ದಿನಾಂಕ: 09-08-2016 ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಪತ್ರಿಕಾ ಹೇಳಿಕೆ ಮಾನ್ಯರೇ, ಮಾಜಿ ಐಪಿಎಸ್ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಯೂ, ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಪಕ್ಷವೊಂದರ ಸಕ್ರಿಯಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರೂ, ಪಾಂಡಿಚೇರಿಯ ಲೆಫ್ಟಿನೆಂಟ್ ಗವರ್ನರ್ ಆಗಿರುವ ಕಿರಣ್ಬೇಡಿಯವರು ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ 2ನೇ ತಾರೀಕಿನಂದು ಡಿನೋಟಿಫೈಡ್ ಬುಡಕಟ್ಟುಗಳನ್ನು(ವಿಮುಕ್ತ ಜಾತಿಗಳು) ಅಪಮಾನಿಸಿ ನಿಂದಿಸುವ ಒಂದು ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ಹೀಗೆ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ‘ಮಾಜಿ ಕ್ರಿಮಿನಲ್ ಟ್ರೈಬ್‍ಗಳು ಅತ್ಯಂತಕ್ರೂರಿಗಳೆಂದೇ ಹೆಸರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅಪರಾಧಗಳನ್ನು ನಡೆಸುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರುನಿಷ್ಣಾತರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅವರನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿಯುವುದಾಗಲೀ, ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ ನೀಡುವುದಾಗಲೀಆಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ’. ಕಿರಣ್ ಬೇಡಿಯವರ ಈ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಈ …
A student from Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, writes: On the night of Saraswati Puja visarjan, in the absence of a majority of students, some unsocial elements belonging to the general category pasted a few posters containing abusive language against the ST phylum (a medical term, derogatorily used for people) directed against their …
Priyashri Mani On the 3rd of May, a young adivasi girl (Madi*) from the Bettakurumba tribe was sexually assaulted by a guard working in the Forest Department. Madi lives in a village inside the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. In the past, the Forest Department has been the single …