Riot – The Real Damage

Stella Paul 2 years ago Region: India

Arson, looting and vandalizing are fast becoming the ‘standard’ way to lodge a protest. So, all across the world today we see dominant groups starting a riot over even trivial issues just to drive home their po... more

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Police Stand Idle As Mirjpur Burns

William Watt 2 years ago Region: India

"Do the poor have no right to live?" exclaimed Jaswant, a local Indian of the village Mirjpur.  Over a month ago, Mirjpur had 20 houses burnt to the ground by the Jat Community and experienced zero support from local ... more

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Caste-based communities on Orkut mirror India's splintered society

Global Voices 3 years ago Region: India

By Gaurav Mishra One of the main themes of my research on digital activism is that social technologies are value-agnostic. At each of the four levels of Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, soci... more

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Supreme Court Orders IIT Delhi to Readmit Expelled SC Students

Santosh Kumar Agarwal 4 years ago Region: India

As reported earlier on 18th June’08 by this reporter, the Delhi IIT expelled 12 Scheduled Caste students (SC) on the ground of poor performance while the expelled SC  students complained of caste based disc... more

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Delhi IIT to Review Expulsion of 12 Scheduled Caste Students

Santosh Kumar Agarwal 4 years ago Region: India

The Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi has been asked by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) to review its decision to expel 12 Scheduled Caste (SC) students on the ground of poor performance. The expe... more

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Those Days and these Days

Shantanud 5 years ago Region: India

  Two books that I have been reading lately ;both written by the well known Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay –Those Days and its sequel First Light have made me wonder whether it is at all possible or eve... more

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Information Age Touches the "Untouchables"

Mohan Nepali 5 years ago Region: Nepal

Over 250 million people worldwide suffer from caste discrimination, which is an obstacle to the fulfillment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights (BBC, 2005). The fact that millions of people in the &ls... more

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Caste census must in India for saving the lower castes

Mine Guruji 6 years ago Region: India

There is no way that upper caste India will let go privileges which have been bestowed upon them since time immemorial. The lower castes are bound to remain backwards because they have been mislead into the false notion th... more

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Upper caste media stifles voice of silent majority

Mine Guruji 6 years ago Region: India

  Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India,  Mar 31--Today morning I went to an insurance agent in order to get some information regarding insurance policies. After talking to him for half an hour, he walked wi... more

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cast out caste politics

Abhishek Pandey 4 years ago Region: India

  Cast out caste politics   By Abhishek Pandey   Caste and Religion does not matter much in the globalised world. These issues have been limited to the personal choice. It only matters when we here... more

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