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Indian-Americans Urge California To Veto Anti-Caste Discrimination Bill

If signed into law by Governor Newsom, California would become the first State in the United States and the first jurisdiction outside India to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

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The Wire - Sanatan Dharma: An Ideology or the Entire Hindu Community?

Sanatan Dharma: An Ideology or the Entire Hindu Community?

Even V.D. Savarkar, the most influential ideologue of Hindutva, hardly conflated ‘sanatan dharma’ with the entire Hindu community, unlike the BJP's position on the current controversy over the term.

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Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?

With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.

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The Times of India - In Kerala, Dalit man slapped, abused for winning Sabarimala tender | Thiruvananthapuram News - Times of India

In Kerala, Dalit man slapped, abused for winning Sabarimala tender

A Dalit man was allegedly attacked, abused calling caste name and spat on face in public by two persons for winning a tender invited by Travancore Devaswom Board to prepare 'unni appam' at Sabarimala temple.

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Shudras in 20th century: We are Kshatriyas. Give us that sacred thread.

Shudras in 21th century: You know what, never mind, we are actually Shudras. Please give us the OBC label.

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A Section of 'INDIA' Wants BSP in But Mallikarjun Kharge Has a Different Plan

The INDIA coalition faces a dilemma on whether to try and bring in Mayawati. There are 3 aspects to it.

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The Hindu - I started using Sanatana Dharma to stop Sangh Parivar groups from twisting my words as an attack on Hindu beliefs: Thirumavalavan

I started using Sanatana Dharma to stop Sangh Parivar groups from twisting my words as an attack on Hindu beliefs: Thirumavalavan

While Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s recent comments about “eradicating Sanatana Dharma” have snowballed into a political controversy, it was VCK founder Thol. Thirumavalavan who had enshrined Sanatana Dharma in the lexicon of Tamil Nadu’s political discourse over the past five years.

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The Wire - The BJP May End up Tying Itself in Knots By Attacking Udhayanidhi Stalin

The BJP May End up Tying Itself in Knots By Attacking Udhayanidhi Stalin

The concept of sanatana dharma was given shape by the Hindu orthodoxy in the 19th century as a movement against reformist organisations like the Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj, which questioned regressive practices such as sati and child marriage.

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Priyank Kharge supports Udhayanidhi, says unequal religion is like a disease

Priyank Kharge was responding to a question on Udhayanidhi’s comment comparing Sanatana Dharma with diseases such as dengue and malaria.

thenewsminute.com/article/priy

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Interview: ‘Vivekananda is the ideological nemesis of the Sangh Parivar’: Govind Krishnan V.

Govind Krishnan V.’s recently published Vivekananda: The Philosopher of Freedom is a conscious effort to challenge the Sangh Parivar’s depiction of the monk as an exemplar of right-wing values.

frontline.thehindu.com/intervi

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Gladstone Scion to Apologise for Slavery: Can Indian Upper Castes Too Look Within?

That Western capitalism had its first roots in the expropriation of slave labour is of course by now an established fact of history. Mr Gladstone’s conscientious lead is admirable, one that many others could emulate – even in the former colonies. Badri Raina writes.

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TN Kuravan families allege torture and sexual assault by Andhra police

Entire families from the Kuravan tribe routinely face arrest and torture for crimes they are unconnected to, revealing the police’s reluctance to shed their prejudice against what were earlier called ‘criminal tribes’.

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Gujarat: OBC quota in local body polls increased from 10% to 27%

The announcement was made ahead of the upcoming polls in 7,100-gram panchayats, 75 Nagar Palikas, two district panchayats and 19 taluka panchayats.

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J&K: Dalit IAS officer files complaint of “harassment, humiliation” against L-G, Chief Secretary

In a major development, a Dalit whistle blower IAS officer Ashok Kumar Parmar has knocked the doors of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) against Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and chief secretary Arun Mehta for “inflicting harassment and humiliation upon him.”

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After Abuse Of Muslim Student In UP School, An Unrepentant Teacher & An Anxious, Fearful Father, Steadfast In Desire For Justice

After Abuse Of Muslim Student In UP School, An Unrepentant Teacher & An Anxious, Fearful Father, Steadfast In Desire For Justice

A day after a video of a Hindu teacher instructing students to hit their Muslim classmate went viral, Article14 visited the village of the student and the teacher in the Uttar Pradesh district of Muzaffarnagar, where the dominant Hindu community insisted there was nothing wrong. Politicians made a beeline for the Muslim student’s house. A journalist tutored the boy’s father about what to say. As the unequal power dynamic between the victim and perpetrator became apparent, members of the Tyagi caste attempted to dilute the heinous nature of the attack on a child. Yet, the father told us he wanted legal action against the teacher.

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Four Dalit children hung upside down from a tree and thrashed in Maharashtra

The videos of the incident have gone viral on social media platforms. The incident has been reported from Haregaon in Srirampur tehsil, reports said.

newindianexpress.com/nation/20

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The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation Workers

For centuries, the caste system has forced Dalit laborers to handle human waste in deadly conditions. Now they are rising up.

nybooks.com/online/2023/08/24/

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Watch: 'Violence Against Dalits in Post-Independent India Not Seen in Gandhi or Ambedkar's Lifetime'

Manoj Mitta speaks to The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta to unpack these legal battles to provide a wider lens to understand why caste based inequality endures and caste-based violence continues with impunity, despite the Constitutional guarantee of equality.

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The Indian Express - Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

According to police, the accused beat the 18-year-old to death with sticks and then damaged portions of his family’s house. The incident took place on Thursday.

indianexpress.com/article/indi

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